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They repeatedly focused on core mathematical fundamentals, especially linear algebra, probability, and regression. Typical questions involved expectations and variance algebra, properties of covariance matrices, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and deriving or explaining regression assumptions and closed-form solutions.
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SM&D Electronic Trading Quant

Interviewed at Barclays

4
Jan 7, 2026

They repeatedly focused on core mathematical fundamentals, especially linear algebra, probability, and regression. Typical questions involved expectations and variance algebra, properties of covariance matrices, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and deriving or explaining regression assumptions and closed-form solutions.

Train on speed : 24 questions on 36 minutes, you can be a good mathematician/statistician and not get past the threshold. For the first round, you will not be asked anything to do with probas, stats, ML, finance or programming / algorithmics.
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Quant Researcher

Interviewed at Optiver

3.7
Dec 1, 2022

Train on speed : 24 questions on 36 minutes, you can be a good mathematician/statistician and not get past the threshold. For the first round, you will not be asked anything to do with probas, stats, ML, finance or programming / algorithmics.

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