Quantitative Research Associate Interview Questions

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0. Walk me through your CV and describe your Ph.D. research. 1. Given two independent Bernoulli distributions what is the joint probability mass function. The correlator should be zero since they are independent, if it is given they are correlated with a coefficient \rho, how to calculate the joint probability mass function. 2. NumPy questions related to masking. 3. What are mutable and immutable objects in python? 4. Give some examples of discrete and continuous probability distributions. 5. What is the complexity of the sorting algorithm?

Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at J.P. Morgan

3.9★

Aug 18, 2021

1) Integrate e^(-x^2) from -inf to +inf 2) Solve differential equation d2x/dt2 + ω2x = 0, 3) Expected number of Hamiltonian paths in a random graph 4) Expected number of tosses to get 3 consecutive heads

Quantitative Research Analyst

Interviewed at J.P. Morgan

3.9★

Mar 18, 2022

Given more time, how could you improve your algo

Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at J.P. Morgan

3.9★

Nov 1, 2021

Given more time, how could you improve your algo

The recruiter's questions were boilerplate, it was obvious she was just reading them and recording what I said. Only needed a few functioning neurons to answer them.

Quantitative Behavioral Researcher

Interviewed at JPMorganChase

3.9★

Sep 8, 2022

The recruiter's questions were boilerplate, it was obvious she was just reading them and recording what I said. Only needed a few functioning neurons to answer them.

Since my background in algorithm was quite weak, I felt the question about sorting was a big challenge for me.

Quantitative Researcher Summer Internship

Interviewed at J.P. Morgan

3.9★

Aug 17, 2013

Since my background in algorithm was quite weak, I felt the question about sorting was a big challenge for me.

a lot of stochastic calculus type of questions

Quantitative Research Associate

Interviewed at JPMorganChase

3.9★

Jul 23, 2010

a lot of stochastic calculus type of questions

two integers with unknown length, expecting one digit at a time and higher digit comes first

Associate - Quantitative Research

Interviewed at J.P. Morgan

3.9★

Dec 17, 2014

two integers with unknown length, expecting one digit at a time and higher digit comes first

6 side dice, average time to roll all sides

Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at J.P. Morgan

3.9★

Jul 19, 2019

6 side dice, average time to roll all sides

what's your career path? what's your weakness?

Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at J.P. Morgan

3.9★

Oct 29, 2019

what's your career path? what's your weakness?

What's a virtual function?

Associate - Quantitative Research

Interviewed at J.P. Morgan

3.9★

Jan 5, 2016

What's a virtual function?

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