Algorithms, data structures and SQL on whiteboard About 6 hours of 1:1 technical interviews with 5+ people in various domains (networking, database, programming, hardware).
Quantitative Research Associate Interview Questions
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What is correlation? What is covariance? Made a graph that the correlation is equal to 1 and -1.
Questions involved familiarity with Linear Regression (it helps to be topically familiar with either iterative LR, PCA, or orthogonal matching pursuit), Minimal Mean Squared Error, probability theory (binomial random variables, gaussian distributions, markov chains, properties of expected value/variance, hypothesis testing), and basic coding (a very trivial programming question when compared to SWE interviews).
Ridge regularization.
What is the angle between the minute hand and the hour hand at 12:15?
Expected number of samples from uniform [0,1] we should take such that their sum passes 1.
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Q: How do you evaluate the stock trends?
Linear regression, Two envelop problem.
What is the time complexity of QR, and what to do if n is too big?
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