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3935 interview stories from candidates at 857 companies: how each round went, what was asked and how it ended. Every company page links to practice questions in the same style.
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- Two Teams and a Lasso DerivationPoint72 · Quantitative Researcher · Intern · Technical Screen · Sep 2026Rejected
I applied for QR Intern and QR Alpha Intern positions based in Hong Kong. There was no online assessment. HR matched me with two teams. One Hong Kong team working on APAC equities. Three interviewers, one PM, one MLE, and one QR, for 30 minutes. They mainly asked about an internship on my resume involving quantitative work and algorithms, in very fine detail. I basically had to explain every step…
- HackerRank OA, Then a Robotic HM Screen and a RejectionPoint72 · AI Engineer · HR Screen · Jan 2026Rejected
A recruiter reached out to me first. After the phone screen, they sent a HackerRank OA — three questions total, 90 minutes. The first question was a lot like one I'd seen in another thread, just with the scenario swapped out. The second one was a LeetCode question. The third was a prompt-engineering question with five sub-parts. Basically: you're an Olympic champion's coach and you need to help t…
- A Broad Second Round Covering Probability, Stats, ML, and LeetCodePoint72 · Quantitative Research · Intern · Technical Screen · Dec 2025
Recruitment process: five rounds of interviews in total. This is the second round. Behavioral Self-introduction How I taught myself finance knowledge Technical Probability Question 1: The classic three-roll dice expectation problem. You can roll a die up to three times, and after each roll you can choose to stop. Your final payoff is the value of the last roll. Compute the expected value of the g…
- Auction Theory and a 32-Ball Tournament PuzzlePoint72 · Quantitative Researcher · Intern · Technical Screen · Nov 2025
Hiring process: five rounds total. This was round one. Behavioral Self-introduction Why do you want to do quant? Share the trading strategies you know Talk about your previous relevant internship experience Math questions Question 1: Second-price auction Two people are bidding on an item. Rules: Whoever bids the highest gets the item. The winner doesn't pay their own bid — they pay the other bidd…
- HackerRank OA Then a Decision-Tree Phone ScreenPoint72 · Data Scientist · Technical Screen · Oct 2025
OA 60 minutes, 4 questions on HackerRank. Same as most experience reports here, except the third question was SQL — for the others you could pick Python or R. But I'd guess most people here just use Python. Date transformation Arbitrary shopping (screenshot attached) SQL question (pretty easy) Given the centers and radii of two circles, write a function to determine their positional relationship…
- HackerRank OA With a Circle-Geometry Question, Then a Coin-Flip Expectation PuzzlePoint72 · Data Scientist · Technical Screen · Oct 2025
OA 60-minute HackerRank test, 4 questions. Same format as most experience posts here — except question 3 was SQL, and for the other questions you could choose Python or R. But I'm pretty sure most people here just use Python. Date transformation Arbitrary shopping (there was an image attached) SQL question (pretty easy) Given the center and radius of two circles, write a function to determine the…
- OA Cut to 50 Minutes for Five QuestionsPoint72 · Data Scientist · Intern · Online Assessment · Oct 2025Rejected
There's not much information about this internship role on the forum, and what's there is outdated, so today I'll share my OA to help others out (and also help myself next year when I'm looking for full-time). The OA got a lot harder this year — it used to be three questions in one hour, but now it's five questions in 50 minutes. The questions were two easy SQL questions, two easy-medium LeetCode…
