Quantitative Modeling Interview Questions

51 quantitative modeling interview questions shared by candidates

First part is talking about your background listed on your resume in detail. Such as why did you choose your college major, how did you get an interview opportunity, what was your mainly responsibility in your last work... Second part is some financial knowledge, including VaR, put option, duration...They are all basic financial concepts, but I forgot many of them. So that's maybe the reason I lost the chance to get into next step. Third part is your computer background. Just let you to evaluate your levels of grasping programming languages or application such as Java, SQL, C++, Matlab
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Quantitative Analytics Model Development Associate

Interviewed at PNC Financial Services Group

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Feb 11, 2015

First part is talking about your background listed on your resume in detail. Such as why did you choose your college major, how did you get an interview opportunity, what was your mainly responsibility in your last work... Second part is some financial knowledge, including VaR, put option, duration...They are all basic financial concepts, but I forgot many of them. So that's maybe the reason I lost the chance to get into next step. Third part is your computer background. Just let you to evaluate your levels of grasping programming languages or application such as Java, SQL, C++, Matlab

First round for a phone interview with statistics and finance staff. Second round on a written test with 9-10 questions on options and bonds, like a programming project. Third round, which is the final round, for a spec interview. An inside paper was sent 1 hour before the presentation and then asking questions related to the paper.
Feb 16, 2021

First round for a phone interview with statistics and finance staff. Second round on a written test with 9-10 questions on options and bonds, like a programming project. Third round, which is the final round, for a spec interview. An inside paper was sent 1 hour before the presentation and then asking questions related to the paper.

normal distribution, log-normal distribution, how do you compute mean of log-normal distribution in terms of the mean and variance of the underlying normal distribution, Brownian motion, Ito's Lemma, Black-Scholes formula, what are the differences between forwards and futures, what is the swap, how do you price the swap, how do you output correlated random variables with a prescribed coefficient of correlation
Aug 10, 2017

normal distribution, log-normal distribution, how do you compute mean of log-normal distribution in terms of the mean and variance of the underlying normal distribution, Brownian motion, Ito's Lemma, Black-Scholes formula, what are the differences between forwards and futures, what is the swap, how do you price the swap, how do you output correlated random variables with a prescribed coefficient of correlation

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