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First person: Volatility clustering definition, difference between ARCH and GARCH, SVM definition, difference between SVM and log reg, how to do cross validation, how to do PCA, basic bond price calculation, Black-Scholes PDE derivation Second person: Kernel SVM vs normal SVM, how to implement an alpha strategy, interest rate swap definition, sorting algorithm and complexity, outlier finding for high dimension variables
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Fixed Income Quant Finance Summer Internship

Interviewed at Morgan Stanley

3.9
Oct 1, 2019

First person: Volatility clustering definition, difference between ARCH and GARCH, SVM definition, difference between SVM and log reg, how to do cross validation, how to do PCA, basic bond price calculation, Black-Scholes PDE derivation Second person: Kernel SVM vs normal SVM, how to implement an alpha strategy, interest rate swap definition, sorting algorithm and complexity, outlier finding for high dimension variables

1. Find two square matrices A, B such that AB-BA=I (I is the identity matrix). 2. A question on Bayes theorem. 3. Given unfair coins find a strategy to sample from a uniform distribution. 4. How will you uniformly sample from a stream of numbers with O(1) space?
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Quant Associate

Interviewed at Morgan Stanley

3.9
Jun 14, 2021

1. Find two square matrices A, B such that AB-BA=I (I is the identity matrix). 2. A question on Bayes theorem. 3. Given unfair coins find a strategy to sample from a uniform distribution. 4. How will you uniformly sample from a stream of numbers with O(1) space?

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