General questions about research, and the amount of time spent on coding. Coding proficiency is very important. Also, maths questions covering probability and statistics. Most of them are obvious. Make sure to know conditional probabilities.
Quantitative Researcher Interview Questions
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What is fourier transform of Guassian ?
given a series of stock prices, describe an algorithm to find the best buy and sell point. ( only one buy and one sell, buy before sell)
Play rock, paper, scissors again and again your opponent cannot throw rock. The game ends when one person loses. You play another round if there is a draw. What is your strategy?
Scenario 1: You are to evaluate the upload feature of youtube. You evaluate 400 subjects with a 20 items validated questionnaire. 19 out of 20 items do not obtain a sig. p-value, just 1 does. What does it mean? Explain me the p value as I was your grandpa.
What wil the probability of an option endining up in the money change if the volatility of the underlying stock increases?
Q. Suppose you are standing on the real line at 0. You know that there is a flag planted somewhere on the line at an integer coordinate, you just don't know how far and in which direction. Is there an algorithm to find the flag in time which is linearly dependent on the distance of the flag from the origin?
Given two uncorrelated gaussian distribution, with 0 mean and unit variance find P(x>5y)
What is the first factorial that has at least 100 digits?
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