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Trading simulation group games, fast paced simple arithmetic test, group maths questions, HR style group interview. One curveball was "Who would you recommend in this room for the position, other than yourself?"
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Graduate Quantitative Trader

Interviewed at Mako Trading Group

3.7★
May 26, 2023

Trading simulation group games, fast paced simple arithmetic test, group maths questions, HR style group interview. One curveball was "Who would you recommend in this room for the position, other than yourself?"

Brain teaser 1: You have 100 coins, and one of them is counterfeit. It weighs slightly more than the other coins. You have a balance scale that you can use to weigh two groups of coins at a time. How can you find the counterfeit coin in three weighings or fewer? Brain teaser 2: You are standing on a point on the Earth. You walk 100 miles south, then 100 miles east, and then 100 miles north. You end up back where you started. How is this possible? Brain teaser 3: A man has a fox, a goose, and a bag of corn. He needs to get all three of them across a river, but his boat can only carry one of them at a time. He cannot leave the fox and the goose alone together, or the fox will eat the goose. He cannot leave the goose and the corn alone together, or the goose will eat the corn. How can he get all three of them across the river? These brain teasers are designed to test your problem-solving skills and your ability to think outside the box. If you can solve them, you'll be well on your way to becoming a successful quant researcher.
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Quantitative Analyst

Interviewed at iCapital

4.1★
Oct 25, 2023

Brain teaser 1: You have 100 coins, and one of them is counterfeit. It weighs slightly more than the other coins. You have a balance scale that you can use to weigh two groups of coins at a time. How can you find the counterfeit coin in three weighings or fewer? Brain teaser 2: You are standing on a point on the Earth. You walk 100 miles south, then 100 miles east, and then 100 miles north. You end up back where you started. How is this possible? Brain teaser 3: A man has a fox, a goose, and a bag of corn. He needs to get all three of them across a river, but his boat can only carry one of them at a time. He cannot leave the fox and the goose alone together, or the fox will eat the goose. He cannot leave the goose and the corn alone together, or the goose will eat the corn. How can he get all three of them across the river? These brain teasers are designed to test your problem-solving skills and your ability to think outside the box. If you can solve them, you'll be well on your way to becoming a successful quant researcher.

"Tell me about yourself? Tell me about your work experience? Or about your education and how all of it can pertain to this role?" Then the last few questions were for you to rank your proficiencies on certain statistical methods and languages.
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Quantitative Fellow

Interviewed at Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

3.1★
Dec 28, 2017

"Tell me about yourself? Tell me about your work experience? Or about your education and how all of it can pertain to this role?" Then the last few questions were for you to rank your proficiencies on certain statistical methods and languages.

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