Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 3 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en First Republic (San Francisco, CA) en oct 2017
Entrevista
After working with a recruiter and a couple phone screens with current Quantitative Analysts, I got invited to on-site interviews.
The interviews with the Quantitative Analysts were a bit all over the place. One asked me to solve the Monty Hall and Blind Islanders brain teasers, I walked another through my resume and past projects, and behavioral questions were scattered throughout. FWIW, I think asking good questions to the interviewers can make a candidate stand out.
In terms of technical skills, I would be ready to whiteboard SQL (self-join) and be able to articulate verbally how linear and logistic regression work.
Overall, the team fosters hacker mindsets with its members, deals with interesting challenges, and has a brilliant manager overseeing it. That said, it's still early in its development internally in the bank, deals with a flood of ad hoc requests, and it may be tough to convince some candidates to leave tech for banking. Candidates will have to think through these trade-offs while interviewing here.
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Pregunta 1
Why doesn't logistic regression use R^2? (not looking for exact answer, just want to hear thinking)
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 6 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en First Republic (San Francisco, CA) en ago 2021
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I got the verbal offer but when I tried to negotiate the number, the team just withdrew the offer and provided no reason. Very rude and disrespectful to their candidates. The package number was low and the bank just tried to bully the employees. Now I got much higher package and I will never come back here.
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en First Republic (San Francisco, CA) en mar 2020
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Took two tests in R and SQL after which we scheduled a phone interview. Interviewer was extremely nice and asked about experience/ resume. Unfortunately, position fell apart due to COVID
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en First Republic (San Francisco, CA)
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The interview process was fast. Their HR contacted me for completing some technical questions in word ( basic SQL and R). Then, I got two phone calls from their managers. the HR asked me to find a time "later this week" to make the call on !!!Wednesday!!!. So I don't have enough time to prepare. My first phone interview was fine. The manager was nice and he asked me some technical questions and some of my work experience. So I got an opportunity for another phone interview with their VP... where the nightmare begins... All his questions were technical questions, which I wasn't aware of... To be honest, he was a little rude during the interview. I didn't feel comfortable and confident. If you are going to interview for this position in the future. Be prepared. Also, I feel they only want someone who has PhD degree.
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Pregunta 1
the range of y (dependent variable) values in a OLS regression. Can the value be exactly - inf?