Quantitative Research Associate Interview Questions

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The manage of the position interviewed me directly. He asked me some basic technical questions, one is about Monte Carlo, one is about CAPM and the last one is about whether we can assume the a company's return to be log normal distributed.
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Quantitative Analyst

Interviewed at Institutional Shareholder Services

3.5
Sep 28, 2017

The manage of the position interviewed me directly. He asked me some basic technical questions, one is about Monte Carlo, one is about CAPM and the last one is about whether we can assume the a company's return to be log normal distributed.

What is the half life of EMA of spread did we use? This is a very experimental find and no way related to judging my skills. Every question was framed like what exactly we do now instead of reasoning and logical questioning.
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Virtu Financial

4
Aug 28, 2025

What is the half life of EMA of spread did we use? This is a very experimental find and no way related to judging my skills. Every question was framed like what exactly we do now instead of reasoning and logical questioning.

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