Technical Screen

Basketball Shot Prediction Design and a Connect Four Round

Virtu FinancialQuantitative Researcher · Technical Screen · Jan 2026

Timeline: mass-applied -> OA -> HR screen -> Round 1 -> Round 2 The HR round just went over my resume, timeline, and identity/status information. None of the brain teasers people mentioned in earlier interview experience posts. Round 1 was an open-ended ML system design. The question: after a basketball is thrown, it can either go in or miss — how do you model this using information available at…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jan 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.