Quantitative Researcher Intern Interview Questions

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Probability: 1, What's the probability getting three increasing numbers if rowed three dices? Statistics: 1, Compute (by hand, instead of using formula) the linear regression of three points, (0, 0), (0, 1) and (1, 0)
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Squarepoint Capital

4
Dec 23, 2025

Probability: 1, What's the probability getting three increasing numbers if rowed three dices? Statistics: 1, Compute (by hand, instead of using formula) the linear regression of three points, (0, 0), (0, 1) and (1, 0)

Lot of questions on my background and prior work-ex (8-9 years), generic talk about research process, alpha construction/performance .. in round 1 In round 2 ... as i mentioned very negative experience as i was asked to disclose my sources of alpha and the measurable output from them
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Quantitative Research Analyst

Interviewed at Squarepoint Capital

4
Apr 6, 2020

Lot of questions on my background and prior work-ex (8-9 years), generic talk about research process, alpha construction/performance .. in round 1 In round 2 ... as i mentioned very negative experience as i was asked to disclose my sources of alpha and the measurable output from them

Given three time series data X, Y, Z, build a model of X in terms of Y and Z. It turns out that X, Y, Z are just independent Brownian motions. (I wasn't allowed to plot them in advance to see this) Need to check ACF I think
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Squarepoint Capital

4
Dec 5, 2020

Given three time series data X, Y, Z, build a model of X in terms of Y and Z. It turns out that X, Y, Z are just independent Brownian motions. (I wasn't allowed to plot them in advance to see this) Need to check ACF I think

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