There were questions about certain financial products and developing strategies around them. There were some puzzles or brain teasers as well.
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Interestingly, there was no small talk of why Macquarie, all the interviewers cut straight to the chase.
I am going to flip a coin 4 times. What is the probability that the outcome is "HHTH", in that order?
Why JPM? What is your career goal in five years.
Consistency of estimators. Convex optimization. Basics of Python (e.g. list comprehension). Basic regression/classification methods (k-nearest neighbours, Gaussian processes).
Why LASSO can do feature selection?
Basic balls into bins probability
Do you follow the market recently? Do you know s&p 500?
Describe your research projects. How could those projects be used to construct trading strategies?
Asked to quote random market prices: oil, EUR/USD, S&P...
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