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Quant Research Intern

iRageCapital Advisory
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2 rounds | 5 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

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Journey
I wanted to experience how quant interviews happen. This was my first quant based interview which requires skills in both mathematics and programming (C++/Python) with experience in ML as well. Have to focus on probability, statistics and general ML for these type of roles
Application story
I asked for referral from a senior employee and then sent him my resume. 1 month later I recieved call from HR for further scheduling process
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I didn't prepare probability and statistics that resulted me to not answer probability and statistics questions properly in the interview
Preparation
Duration: 1 Month
Topics: Data Structure, Algorithms, Statistics, Probability, Machine Learning
Tip
Tip

Tip 1 : Have strong understanding of probability and statistics
Tip 2 : Have good experience with data modelling and machine learning
Tip 3 : Prepare data structures and algorithm to decent level

Application process
Where: Referral
Eligibility: N/A
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : Don't fake anything
Tip 2 : Have good projects on resume that you can explain

Interview rounds

01
Round
Easy
Online Coding Interview
Duration130 minutes
Interview date1 Dec 2022
Coding problem2

Round based on statistics,probability, aptitude, machine learning and coding questions

1. Colorful Strings

Moderate
10m average time
90% success
0/80
Asked in companies
DirectiShareChat

You have been given an integer ‘N’. You are supposed to find the number of all possible strings of length ‘N’ where each character of the string is either ‘R’, ‘B’ or ‘G’. In the final string, there must be at least ‘r’ characters of ‘R, at least ‘b’ characters of ‘B’ and at least ‘g’ characters of ‘G’.

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2. Remove Edges

Moderate
20m average time
80% success
0/80
Asked in companies
UberFacebook

You are given an undirected graph with ‘N’ vertices and ‘M’ edges. Each edge has a particular type as described below:

An edge with type 1 can only be traversed by a person ‘A’.

An edge with type 2 can only be traversed by a person ‘B’.

An edge with type 3 can be traversed by both persons ‘A’ and ‘B’.

Your task is to determine the maximum number of edges that can be removed such that after removing these edges, all the nodes can still be traversed by both ‘A’ and ‘B’.

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02
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date7 Dec 2022
Coding problem3

Probability, Statistics based round. Mostly covered general questions around them.

1. Stats Question

Explain Moment generating function and kurtosis

2. Stats Question

Expected number of tosses to get n heads variation

3. Stats Question

Monte hall problem with 2 doors opened out of 4 doors variation

Here's your problem of the day

Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company

Skill covered: Programming

What is recursion?

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