Prep tips for Quant Fund Interviews

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lakzjhfn

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Feb 12 15 Comments

Have interviews lined up at:
Citadel
HRT
Jump
Two Sigma

For SWE roles. Other than LC, how should I prepare?

220k TC, 2 YOE

Hudson River Trading Citadel Jump Trading
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  • Square
    ~Muad'Dib~

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    ~Muad'Dib~
    If it's for a SWE role, LC will be more than enough.

    Also, there are specific LC questions that get asked a lot at trading firms. Eg: implement an in-memory order book. Focus on these.

    Also, depending on the type of SWE role, learning about the following will also be helpful:

    Research SWE: market micro-structure, linear regression, basic probability, etc

    Low-level SWE: C++ optimization, networking, operating systems, etc
    Feb 12 7
    • Meta / Eng
      uk-swe

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       uk-swe
      Thanks Square, I had found that link after seeing your comment on it, but wanted to see if you had any recommendations in particular.
      Feb 12
    • Square
      ~Muad'Dib~

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      ~Muad'Dib~
      That is a good question about system design.

      I would ask your recruiter for specifics since the system design interview will vary a lot between trading firms.

      For inexperienced candidates some firms may not have a system design interview.

      Others will not ask traditional system design questions like "Design Facebook" or "Design Instagram". Instead they will count on you to make good design choices during your coding rounds and count that as system design.

      For experienced candidates, you might get asked "Design an exchange", "Design an order routing system", "Design a highly-distributed backtesting / simulation infrastructure".

      Please ask your recruiter for details, the trading industry hasn't settled on a good format for system design interviews so it varies a lot between firms.
      Feb 12
  • I'm interested in all these companies too. How'd you get an interview call?
    Feb 12 4
    • New
      WgRz45

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      WgRz45
      Quick tip: you only need to land an interview initially from one. After that you tell the others that you’re in the interview process at said firm (either in a message to a recruiter or the first line of your cover letter) and they will all fall like dominoes after
      Feb 13
    • Ok, thanks :). Will see if that works.
      Feb 13
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    > how should I prepare?

    Get a PhD from a top 10 school
    Feb 19 0
  • TS asked me their tagged LC questions in my interview 🀣
    Feb 13 0