I applied online. I interviewed at Point72 in Oct 2024
Interview
Phone call interview for half an hour. Introduce myself, my motivation for going to quant, why I chose my current degree program, and if I have questions for them. Then comes four questions, as shown below.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Statistics (asking if a distribution is positively skewed, rank the mean, median, and mode), coding (is Python case-sensitive; what's the difference between loc and iloc, and another function that I can't remember but I have never heard of).
Well, for one team in four stages. The first two are interviews, the 3rd is a take home project. The guys from the team are understanding an let you think about the problems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Strat with sharpe 1 for 4 years, probability to lose money
It began with self introduction, then moved on to items on the resume like what you did in previous experiences, some theoretical academic questions, and then 3 technicals questions about probability.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe what you did during your last job experience.
