The quant trader interview guide

In this video, I invited back Worthan Kwan, our favourite quant trader! Worthan explains step by step the quant trading interview process and the resources he used to prepare for his interviews - including an in depth explanation on how to do well in the mock trading that is usually in final round and messes up a lot of people.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:44 What's a quant trader?
01:10 Where do quant traders work?
01:41 Interview process
02:09 Round 1
02:49 Round 1 & 2
03:24 Final round
07:19 How to prepare - resources
10:45 Summary

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[stephenkramer]

Me watching this despite only having 3 brain cells and never having to worry about a quant interview 💛

[kaif]

By far one the most interesting and thought provoking channels I'v come across, Thank you Tina.

[LukeBarousse]

Such a great job example of the application of data science; thanks for sharing Tina!
ALSO congrats on flying by 50K!! 🍾👯‍♀️🎉 Holy smokes you are growing so fast!!

[kkoonnradd]

thank you for this guide. ~I'm just preparing for the first round of my Quant trading interview process.. Im sick of being an engineer and believe that this job is finally one that is mentally stimulating enough to stick with for the long term

[Julia-xlpr]

Really nice stuff! Been struggling thinking about how I can prepare for next year’s quant trading interviews.

[tobiassteindl]

Love the video! Would like to see more about quants, seems as if youre interested in the topic as well

[FullMetalBrownies]

Did zetamac, as a dual major with a major in applied math i got a 6 😂 i guess i can probably work on this.

[suyashjaiswal]

Just commenting for reach and to tell you that that thumbnail is
*chef's kiss* !!

[sebisamuel]

HAPPY 50K TINA 🥳🥳🥳😭😭🥳🥳🥳

STAY AWESOME 😎😎

[nikhilgarg-yeariddmathema]

I broke his score in my first attempt. Gave three tries, first attempt : 82, second attempt : 84 and third attempt : 90. Can you please share some resources for market making questions in Quant Interviews? For example, in Optiver, I have heard that they ask questions such as make a market on the number of Eiffel Towers required to reach from Earth to Moon, number of corner kicks in FIFA World Cup 2018, so how to calculate the expected values of these quantities without having any prior knowledge about them?

[aniketbanginwar]

Awesomee Worthan is backkk! Wow 50k already!?

[amanpatel]

The zetamac score 75, what was the time duration?

[alexanderkononov]

Great and very informative video, but i didnt understand the mock trading part at all: can someone explain to me the example with the heights of people, what are you trading, selling and buying, what does "you have to buy below 5"7 mean" etc? Thanks in advance

[ignacio]

i literally can't break 20 in that zetamac test. why god did you make me this dumb? 😭

[rogermejia]

I took an interview recently. and I did really wrong even though I took classes before the online exam. I would like to prepare myself more to be able to accomplish success. Please I need help.

[psibarpsi]

Can a lower-tier college student also make it to these quant trader roles? I've heard they pay a lot of attention to educational pedigree.

[zack]

Is there no programming involved at all ? Since you have to make mathematical models, aren't you expected to devise those models with some financial knowledge + programming abiliites.

[uttamsingh]

Really well structured loved it 🌻, I'm going to check recourse now ...

[lindaliu]

after 3 or 4 zetamac attempts, got 53

[Happy-ejeb]

great video! would be even better if you normalise the audio