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1. A probability/stats question involving linked-list but not to code. Extremely similar to an airplane seating problem with waiting room. Reference: Reservoir Sampling 2. Given Cov(X,Y) and Cov(Y,Z) what can you say about Cov(X,Y) 3. Live-coding: Similar to maximum subarray less than k.
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Graduate Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Squarepoint Capital

3.9★
Sep 16, 2025

1. A probability/stats question involving linked-list but not to code. Extremely similar to an airplane seating problem with waiting room. Reference: Reservoir Sampling 2. Given Cov(X,Y) and Cov(Y,Z) what can you say about Cov(X,Y) 3. Live-coding: Similar to maximum subarray less than k.

1) Write python code to find max drawdown of trading strategy 2) Compare two lotteries based on their expected payoff and standard deviation 3) Probability that n points on a circle are in one semicircle 4) How to extract features using linear regression
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Squarepoint Capital

3.9★
Feb 1, 2022

1) Write python code to find max drawdown of trading strategy 2) Compare two lotteries based on their expected payoff and standard deviation 3) Probability that n points on a circle are in one semicircle 4) How to extract features using linear regression

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