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Quant interview guides

Each guide groups the questions that keep coming up by the technique that solves them, with every problem’s answer on the page and a link to its full worked solution.

Guide · brain teasers

Quant Brain Teasers: The Puzzles Interviewers Actually Ask

The brain teasers that recur in quant trading and research interviews — 12 balls, screwy pirates, two eggs, blue-eyed islanders and more — grouped by the technique that cracks them, with answers.

26 problems · 5 sections

Guide · overview

Quant Interview Questions: What Traders, Researchers and Risk Get Asked

A structured map of quant interview questions — probability, brain teasers, market making, stochastic calculus, statistics and coding — with the questions each role actually gets and worked answers.

43 problems · 7 sections

Guide · probability

Probability Interview Questions for Quant Roles (With Answers)

The probability questions quant interviews ask most — conditioning and Bayes, expected stopping times, counting, the classic hard problems — grouped by technique, with answers.

27 problems · 5 sections

Guide · market making

Market Making Interview Questions: Fair Value, Spreads and Betting Games

The market-making questions trading firms ask — fair value and spreads, adverse selection, Kelly sizing, Dutch books, stopping games, auctions and Fermi estimates — with answers.

19 problems · 5 sections

Guide · Jane Street

Jane Street Interview Questions: What They Ask and How to Prepare

What Jane Street quant interviews test — probability with follow-ups, betting games and market making, brain teasers, random walks — with the recurring questions, answers and a prep plan.

30 problems · 5 sections

Guide · Optiver

Optiver Interview Questions: Mental Math, Options Intuition and Market Making

What the Optiver trader interview tests — the timed math screen, dice and expected value, market-making games, options intuition — with the recurring questions, answers and a prep plan.

29 problems · 5 sections

Guide · SIG

SIG (Susquehanna) Interview Questions: Poker, Probability and Decision Making

What Susquehanna (SIG) trader interviews test — poker-style betting and edge, probability, decisions under uncertainty, options intuition — with the recurring questions, answers and a prep plan.

26 problems · 5 sections

Quant Interview Guides · LeetQuant