I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Squarepoint Capital in Dec 2022
Interview
5 Rounds in total. R1 (30 mins): Phone interview with HR. General questions about motivation, current job, resume walkthrough. HR describes about DQA role and requirements. R2 (1 hour): Video interview with a DQA. First 30-40 mins code pair round on HackerRank. 3 questions leetcode easy medium. Then, 20-30 mins programming and linux related questions. R3 (1 hour): Phone interview with Quant Researcher. This round covered Statistics, Probability and financial intuition. R4 (1 hour): Video interview with Quant Researcher. This was again a code pair round on HackerRank. 3 questions leetcode easy-medium. R5 (1 hour): Final discussion with a quant researcher. Daily basis of work and bit of general HR kinda questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Code pair rounds: Questions similar to Longest Increasing Subsequence, Fibonacci DP, Subarray Sum, Palindromes in binary string. Prob/stats round: Expected value questions, central limit theorem, etc
1hr Online Assessment, 3 technical Interviews! And a behavioral
Nothing very hard but long wait time for feedback.
First interview - two leetcode style problems (medium but on the easier side)
Second - math&stats questions plus some basic trading questions
Third - pretty easy coding problem + questions about datasets
I interviewed at Squarepoint Capital (London, England)
Interview
4 rounds: OA (hackerrank + probability MCQ), 1 coding round (leetcode questions, pretty simple), 1 maths + financial intuition round (also pretty simple), final live interview with some maths and a live leetcode medium (1hr) and a personality fit conversation (1hr).
Interviewers were all very friendly. Strong accommodation for my timeline since I had competing offers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode, DP, BS, standard DSA stuff, stuff on probability, financial intuition
I interviewed at Squarepoint Capital (London, England)
Interview
Hackerrank interview with stats, maths, coding questions. Tested basic knowledge on the subjects. Also person to person interview in next round which expanded on the questions asked in the prior test
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