Quant interview questions with solutions
Practice questions for quant trader, researcher and developer interviews, grouped by topic. Every question has a worked solution. When you're ready to drill, Edge turns all 3,566 problems into daily puzzles, timed games and a mock assessment.
Probability interview questions
1,549 problemsProbability is the core of quant trading and research interviews: expected value, conditioning, dice, cards, coins and random walks.
Ten cards are shuffled at random. What is the expected number that end up in their original position?
Brainteaser and puzzle interview questions
741 problemsBrainteasers test whether you can find structure fast: counting, number theory, clever weighings, recursion and sequences.
How many distinct arrangements are there of the letters in LEVEL?
Options interview questions
449 problemsTrading interviews expect fluency with option payoffs, put–call parity, the Greeks and quick pricing approximations.
The theta of a long vanilla option is usually…
Statistics interview questions for quant roles
241 problemsQuant research interviews lean on statistics: variance rules, standard errors, correlation, regression, the normal distribution and portfolio risk.
A Poisson(λ) random variable has variance…
Python and algorithms interview questions
233 problemsQuant developer and researcher interviews include quick-fire questions on Python behavior and algorithm costs.
Average cost of looking up a key in a Python dict?
Mental math practice for trading interviews
353 problemsTrading firms test arithmetic speed in their first-round online tests.
What is 14²?