Acudí a una entrevista en Squarepoint Capital (New York, NY)
Entrevista
Applied online. Had two interviews with quant researchers. 1st interview, some introductions, and then one question on probability and a simple coding question. 2nd interview, one linear algebra, one probability, and one stats question.
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Squarepoint Capital en may 2026
Entrevista
3 round of interviews: first round coin tossing questions and leetcode mediums, was asked an ATM ordering questions, second round was financial intuition regarding futures, sharpe ratio and distribution around expected returns, third round is onsite with data, 3h. yet to come
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
you toss 51 coins and i toss 50. the person wins with the most heads. you start. what is the probability of you winning?
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Squarepoint Capital
Entrevista
Online call, only I had the camera on. Standard coding and probability questions, but the interviewer disconnected mid coding, which was weird. Also I solved the probability problem and the interviewer claimed it was incorrect. Overall a really bad experience.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
16 balls with 4 special are partitioned into 4 groups each with size 4. What is the prob the special balls land in different groups?
The interviewer is nice, asked one programming that you can choose using whatever programming language you would like (python by default) and a couple of probability and statistics questions. However did not pass the interview,.