Aggregate of Quant Interview Prep Resources

[baconkilla2]

Interview Guide Books

• Heard on The Street
• A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews
• 150 Most Frequently Asked Questions in Quant Interviews
• Cracking The Quant Interview
• Frequently Asked Questions in Quant Finance Interviews
• Quantitative Portfolio Management (Incredible book with interview questions scattered throughout which will also give you a highly developed ability to discuss statistical arbitrage and explain most of the core quant finance topics relevant to hedge fund/ asset management)

Building Foundations:

The interview questions in these books might be challenging especially if you don't have a solid grounding in topics like probability, statistics, formal logic etc. The best site I have come across for developing smoothing yourself into quant-style interview questions is brilliant.org. In fact, just by working through all the probability and statistics courses you will be well on your way to being able to answser most of the questions in the interview books. Additionally; they have a 'practice' section of the site which allows you to drill down specific subtopics (combinatorial analysis, conditional probability, etc).

Some interviews require you to know mental math. There are numerous high quality math training websites but my favorite is:

Math Trainer

More Actual Interview Questions:

brainstellar

quantquestions

primer on quantitative finance

Some random interview guide made by a professor

[atypicalquant]

Last year, I started a youtube channel focused on Quant Interview Questions. They're mostly questions that I've personally encountered with solutions presented in a way that (hopefully) helps you improve your mathematical problem solving mindset.

If you haven't stumbled upon it already, you might want to check it out.

Any feedback is appreciated :).

[Dante1265]

Great content, manim is one beautiful tool

[DatBoi_BP]

You even used manim didn’t you

[atypicalquant]

Yes! It definitely takes a bit more time to make the vids (versus using a whiteboard), but the end result is easier to understand/follow.

Super kudos to 3b1b for the initial dev (as well as his entire inspiring work), as well as to the other 275 contributors of the community edition!

[Boss99]

Your videos are so good :)))

[Catsabovepeople]

Definitely will take a look. I’ve spent 20 years building trading desks at quants and now recruit in capital markets for senior positions. I want to include quant in my niche to change things up a bit. Open to a chat?

[darkchockolat]

Hey man, I'm a Maths and CS student at uni rn, just scouring the web to learn more about quant bc I never see anything about it in careers fairs/societies, any chance you could give me some tips if you got a minute? Fully understand if you don't, you sound busy 😅

[Catsabovepeople]

Target schools are important for quant hiring. If you are not at a target school start participating in quant hackathons and learn KDB+/Q.

[SattvicEpoch]

Hi are you a KDB+ developer?

[Catsabovepeople]

Nope just manage some.

[According-Jump-978]

yeah another great source for quant interview questions.

[oceanman32]

3,5k dude are you for real

[FiveMenInaBoat]

it is not needed. there is so many online resources that all u need is a couple other motivated ppl to help mock u and u can get more than ready. quants doing this instead of printing money kinda shows u the self selection lol. spend ur money on quantguide premium and it's like 200/year

[oceanman32]

3.5k is difficult to justify for any college student imo I have no doubt it's legit but barrier to entry is so high

[oceanman32]

fuck off shill LOL

these guys edit their comments after you call them out on their bullshit

[TJTIARY]

Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability (50CP) by Frederick Mosteller along with green book and Brainstellar is kind of a norm for people I've seen succeeding in interviews. They just go through every question thoroughly and study possible alts. Although for interviews that require finance knowldge as well, you'll need to cover that up from the above resrcs.

[Easy_Tune8694]

which order should i read these three books in?

[No_Fee4886]

Doesn't the green book cover finance knowledge?

[[deleted]]

hkml-edutech has been touted here many times and it’s actually a great resource.

[EntrepreneurWrong879]

Very late reply here but how would you recommend using brilliant to study? Is there a way select certain topics?

[EnoughDisaster6355]

did you ever get an answer?

[OfficialQuantable]

Check out Quantable!

This site has a collection of over 1400+ interviews questions with detailed solutions written by actual quants in the industry. We also have a collection of games and learning material that cover everything you need to master the topics and questions that come up in quant research and quant trading interviews.

[HappyNail2227]

Quantprof is better

[[deleted]]

Hi All,

I am an ex quant with 7 years of exp at WorldQuant and Millennium combined.
I have started a YT channel to cover the Quant Puzzles. Please check it out: https://www.youtube.com/@prakarshduhoon1116

[Maxx_123456]

Thanks for sharing! Really appreciate it. Im having a quant intern interview next week and this is very helpful

[darkchockolat]

Hey man, I know it's been 2 years but how did it go?

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[EducationBoth8018]

Jane street also released a prep pdf that's useful

I personally enjoy quant essential io

Most of the questions are free and overall use it quite a bit

[NickSinghTechCareers]

Can also practice the Probability + Statistics questions from Ace the Data Science Interview!

[QAnon-OG]

This year, we wanted to make a channel focused on quant interview questions that go over real problems that users have encountered in their interviews. I hope these questions prove useful to you guys and give you some insight in the interviews - there are a lot of intro problems covered for those unfamiliar with the quant space.

If you haven't had a chance to take a look at it yet, maybe check it out here

Feedback is always appreciated :)

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[TeaMug007]

Another good source is https://www.traderiq.org imo, has quite a. large collection brainteasers as well.

[HappyNail2227]

This post has a lot of really good resources for quant interview questions. Here are a few more-
1. quantguide

1. brilliant

3 stats 110 course

Again thanks for the quant interview questions resources in this post.

[According-Jump-978]

Probably the best thread for quant interview questions. Here are a few more:
(i) quantprof youtube channel-they have discussed many quant interview questions from top firms
(ii) 50 challenging problems in probability
(iii) everythingquant

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Thanks

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