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Commodities Analyst
Mid Average Neutral experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Phone screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Coding
2 rounds of conversation about experience and background, brain teasers and coding questions and technical questions - not related to commodities and more general finance questions. Not necessarily difficult but unexpected and fields you haven't necessarily covered/worked on at all. First few rounds seem to be generic and are with different departments you didn't apply for (general technical screening)
Confirmed questions4 questions
- Derive the square root of a number and other derivations
- Probability brain teasers
- Statistics technical knowledge
Squarepoint Capital
Quantitative Analyst
Entry Average Neutral experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical
First, there was an online coding test that I could do on my own time. Then, I had a live HackerRank coding interview where the interviewer also asked me some programming theory questions, like what's the difference between abstraction and encapsulation. They called this stage "coding & IT," and even though they said later interviews would focus on stats and probability, they threw in some stats questions here too.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- Coding questions of Leetcode easy/medium difficulty.
- Could you explain the difference between abstraction and encapsulation?
- What is the significance of the R value in the context of regression?
Squarepoint Capital
Quantitative Researcher Intern
Intern Average Negative experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical
It was an online call where only I had my camera on. They asked standard coding and probability questions, but the interviewer unexpectedly disconnected during the coding part, which was quite strange. To make matters worse, they claimed my correct answer to the probability problem was incorrect. It was a really bad experience overall.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Regarding 16 balls, 4 of which are special, partitioned into 4 groups of 4 balls each, what is the probability that the special balls end up in different groups?
Squarepoint Capital
Software Engineer
Entry Average Positive experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical Coding
The interview process lasted three weeks. After submitting an online assessment on Hackerrank, which included 5 multiple-choice questions on Linux and a coding challenge about Task scheduling algorithm, I received a reply three days later. I passed the online assessment but was unsuccessful in the first round tech interview. The interview itself was an hour long, with 30 minutes dedicated to discussing my related projects and the remaining 30 minutes for a coding challenge that involved converting strings to formulas. The coding challenge was considered medium difficulty.
Confirmed questions4 questions
- Can you explain what asynchronous programming is?
- What were your reasons for choosing Gunicorn over FastAPI in your project?
- Describe the Task scheduling algorithm.
Squarepoint Capital Interview Questions
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“Given 100 rolls of a fair six-sided die, after repeatedly removing complete sets of {1,2,3,4,5,6} whenever they appear, what is the expected number of dice left?”
Read reports →“Given a random variable X with a strictly decreasing probability density function (pdf), show that its mean is strictly greater than its median.”
Read reports →“How many tosses on average does it take to get 3 heads in a row?”
Read reports →“For a given set of n points (x_i, y_i), if we double these observations to (2x_i, 2y_i), how will the regression parameters alpha, beta, and sigma change for the resulting 2n points compared to the original n points?”
Read reports →“What is the relationship between k1 and k2 in a regression where y=k1x and x=k2y?”
Read report →“Regarding probability, what is the chance of rolling three dice and getting numbers that are in increasing order?”
Read report →“Regarding 16 balls, 4 of which are special, partitioned into 4 groups of 4 balls each, what is the probability that the special balls end up in different groups?”
Read report →“If the correlation between X and Y is 0.66 and between X and Z is 0.77, what is the possible range for the correlation between Y and Z?”
Read report →“What is the probability of landing heads 3 times in a row in 10 tosses?”
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