I applied through university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cingulait (London, England) in Aug 2022
Interview
Submitted my cover letter and CV
1) Received an initial phone interview with the CTO himself. Call discussed the structure of the firm and role. CTO asked some questions
2) 1st Technical Interview
- interviewed with a current quantitative researcher at the firm
3) 2nd Technical Interview
- interviewed with the other current quantitative researcher at the firm
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1)
- Why do you want to work in this role?
- How familiar are you with the research, testing and deploying the systematic trading strategies?
2)
- Coded the gradient descent algorithm along with the quantitative researcher in a Google Colab Jupyter Notebook
- Asked questions about the algorithm after completion
3)
- What is an iterator
- What is a generator
- How to find the rolling quantile for a Python dataframe using Pandas and Numpy
- Explored these questions in a code-along with the other quantitative researcher in a Google Colab Jupyter
