The interview was mostly focussed on asking questions about my experience. There were no technical questions.
Senior Quantitative Researcher Interview Questions
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Certain standard questions from quant books/sites.
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
What was your biggest in your current role?
What is the loss function for Support Vector Machines regression
Previous experience and ways I was prepared for the job description.
Q: How do you evaluate the stock trends?
Question sur mon processus de recherche: comment je trouve de nouvelles idées, comment je les teste, jusqu'à l'implémentation de la stratégie en pratique
What kind of alpha I was working on? What research infrastructure would I need?
Who are your major clients? What industry are they in?
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