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No Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA (US) Oct 2010 – Reviewed Dec 22, 2010
Interview Details
A few questions about the company itself. Know all aspects about the company. I think they really value company culture there.
A few technical questions about options pricing, probability/statistics, linear regression, algorithms and data structure, and alos some programming questions regarding C++/Java. The role involves programming and finance so be solid in these areas.
Interview Questions
No Offer – Interviewed in Oct 2008 – Reviewed Aug 18, 2009
Interview Details The first round interview was a 1:1 meeting with a manager who asked several programming questions. The first few questions were very basic, and then progressively got harder. For example, one question was about how to write a program to perform a bubble sort using arrays. The second round interview consisted of several more technical questions ranging from brain teasers to recognizing specific statistical distribution functions.
Interview Question – What is the formula for the normal distribution? View Answer
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