What is the % of people that have a disease given that they tested positive for the disease?
Quantitative Researcher Interview Questions
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Lots of probably based math questions in first round, don’t hesitate to ask questions and take it slow. They want to know how you think.
Given an array of dates in string format (e. g. '20050301') write a function that returns year and quarter (e. g. '20050301 =>' 2005Q1')
One question from graph theory, and one question about string manipulation and search.
Everything is straightforward, portfolio-theoretic questions, no tricks / brainteasers involved. -Can you explain what a GARCH model is? -What is the "market portfolio?" -What is your reasoning for the minimum-volatility anomaly? -How would you "clean a data set?" -How would you handle an outlier? -Give X number of factors that you think are useful to model returns on a stock from Y industry. Interviewing team also may test your knowledge outside of pure data mining, e.g. an accounting question " Can you explain what is free cash flow? How would you find it?" Always have a couple of stock pitches, just in case. They like to know if you're well-read on current market events: "Ebay or Amazon? Tesla or GoPRO? etc. etc."
What's a functor in C++?
a dp question
what is the difference between uncorrelated and independent and give an example of two random variables that are uncorrelated but not independent.
Given a set of lines, return the count of unique words and letters. A word is defined as any sequence of one or more lower case letters and words are separated by white spaces.
Let X be the sum of N independent random variables following uniform distribution. What is the distribution of X?
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