Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Quantlab (Houston, TX) en may 2013
Entrevista
Interviewer generally asks very open ended questions. The most important is to have programming experience and basic math. The rest is of very little value to them.
Problem 1: very low transparency firm. You do not know how much money they manage or what is the performance in general. That is troublesome ... how knows what is under the hood.
Problem 2: They are involved in several lawsuits.... add this to transparency: not pretty.
Problem 3: They are in Houston TX. If something goes wrong, well then you can go to ... Quantlab. Well you get the picture. Not many options.
Problem 4: Based on some lawsuits, once you are in you can never leave since they will accuse you of stealing their secrets.
Me postulé a través de otra fuente. Acudí a una entrevista en Quantlab
Entrevista
It was an interview in a physics conference in March 2017.
Before the interview. I submitted my resume prior the conference and was informed to have an one-on-one interview with a quantitative research scientist. The HR was nice and helpful. I was told that I would be fine without financial knowledge and they valuated the analytical skills of physicists.
Interview: the quantitative research scientist that was a physicist (South Asian, maybe) started with asking a coupling questions like "what is your research". But I already felt something bad, because he was always looking around when I was answering. Then he started to flip his notebook and pick questions from it. And the questions were what shown below. I don't know how many physics new grads have studied decision theory and risk analysis. In any case I said that I heard about these and explained what they were although I did not study them. Again, his head was like a pendulum turning left and right. By the moment I knew I was done. This guy likely did not want to give me a chance from the beginning.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Decision theory, risk analysis, Time series, and technical questions.
Why transit from academy to industry?
Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. Acudí a una entrevista en Quantlab
Entrevista
The interview consisted of an initial 2 hour test based mostly on probability and statistics with one coding question for a given problem. This was done by yourself without any questions or clarifications.
Afterwards, I was interviewed by a team based of my resume and past work experience.
Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. El proceso tomó 5 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Quantlab (Boston, MA) en mar 2017
Entrevista
Got a phone interview and coding exercise for another position in quantlab first, however the position is filled and the interviewer referred me to this position.
First it was a phone screen, followed by one-hour written test, covering basics of calculus, ODE, linear algebra, probability and programming. After that I was given a programming exercise which can be done in a week. Then first round onsite in Boston, however, didn't make this round.
Most questions asked during onsite are still focused on basics of math and c++, for this particular role I was told that it'll be doing coding only and no math, but the interview questions covers areas including statistics and SDE, which caught me off-guard. It is also important to know the fundamentals of c++ well, which is the major reason I didn't pass.
The overall process is well organized and efficient. HR and interviewers are very nice. Got $100 amazon gift card for the programming exercise, the trip to Boston is also nice.