monte carlo; tradeoff between newton method and sgd; convex optimization; Ax = b with A being the product orthogonal matrix and up triangle matrix, solve for x
Quantitative Research Associate Interview Questions
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Online assessment, 3 coding problems, you have to do it in python 2 or 3, it gives you 120 min, parsing word, Markov chain problem, and a graph question. it feels like time is not enough to a new grad student, graph question is hard.
machine learning, coding, geometry
Typical HR questions; how to structure minvol portfolio; what research ideas Head of research was specialized in qualitative research, so was not capable of judging quantitative skills and did so only based on the school I attended (he said the latter himself); C-level executive literally just talked about himself for most of the interview and made judgements on research ideas after saying he has never heard of the techniques I mentioned; both head of research and C-level executive were ex-Deutsche Bank and clearly came with the associated superiority complex. Probably dodged a bullet there
Describe the last time you face a challenge, and you have to solve it as a team!
Leetcode questions and linear algebra
BS model derivation, stochastic process
General questions about my work experience.
Questions on information theory, what is entropy, significance of bit
Statistics questions on random walks.
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