Quant Researcher applicants have rated the interview process at Voleon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 32.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Quant Researcher roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Voleon overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Voleon as a Quant Researcher according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Skills test: 25%
Presentation: 25%
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Voleon in Nov 2020
Interview
HR is nice. After a discuss for half an hour, she assigned me the phone interview.
The first round interview was implemented by zoom for one hour, which is mainly about statistics and machine learning.
Quite smarmy and unprofessional interviewer and that overall experience made it seem like a terrible place to work. I withdrew my application because of that first impression of toxic competitiveness
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical algorithm design questions in efficient time
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Voleon (Berkeley, CA)
Interview
One recruiter call one technical phone and and two onsites. If you pass the two onsites you get one more round which consists of coding and research questions. The focus is very much on ML theory and statistical knowledge.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic statistics, linear regression, some basic ML theory