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Two of the questions were rederiving some basic calculus results. This sort of derivation is not particularly complicated, but if you don't recall the right "trick", it can eat up a lot of time. Not sure what skill (if any) these were intended to showcase.
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Quantitative Research Analyst Internship

Interviewed at Quantlab

3.2
Dec 8, 2016

Two of the questions were rederiving some basic calculus results. This sort of derivation is not particularly complicated, but if you don't recall the right "trick", it can eat up a lot of time. Not sure what skill (if any) these were intended to showcase.

Questions during the first-round interview: - Why Scalable Capital? - Why Quant Trading (Market Making)? - What happened in the markets? - Which stock would you go long and which would you go short at the moment and why? - On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your programming proficiency with Python? - Imagine you are short on a stock and you have a low cash balance. Which 3 possibilities do you have in order to delta-hedge your position? - What are highly liquid securities you can trade in the markets?
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Internship Quantitative Trading (Market Making)

Interviewed at Scalable Capital

3.7
Sep 7, 2025

Questions during the first-round interview: - Why Scalable Capital? - Why Quant Trading (Market Making)? - What happened in the markets? - Which stock would you go long and which would you go short at the moment and why? - On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your programming proficiency with Python? - Imagine you are short on a stock and you have a low cash balance. Which 3 possibilities do you have in order to delta-hedge your position? - What are highly liquid securities you can trade in the markets?

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