This book will prepare you for quantitative finance interviews by helping you zero in on the key concepts that are frequently tested in such interviews. In this book we analyze solutions to more than 200 real interview problems and provide valuable insights into how to ace quantitative interviews. The book covers a variety of topics that you are likely to encounter in quantitative interviews: brain teasers, calculus, linear algebra, probability, stochastic processes and stochastic calculus, finance and programming.
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Xinfeng Zhou, Ph.D., CFA, FRM, currently works as an equities strategist at a global investment bank in New York City. Before that, he was a research analyst at Barclays Global investors in San Francisco. He graduated from MIT with a graduate certificate in Financial Technology and an MS in Operations Research from Sloan School of Management and a Ph.D. in Applied Biosciences from School of Engineering.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent book to ace wall street quant interviews,
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This review is from: A Practical Guide To Quantitative Finance Interviews (Paperback)
What I like most about this book is that it has detailed step by step solutions to the many many real world interview questions included in it. It explains how to approach common (and many not so common) problems --from analyzing the problem, breaking it down to its parts, to arriving at a good answer.It changes the way one thinks rather than provide mechanical canned answers.. Unlike a few other books that have been in the market this one has greater breadth and depth.I'd recommend the book to both job seekers and interviewers.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Lots of quant interview questions and detailed solutions!,
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This review is from: A Practical Guide To Quantitative Finance Interviews (Paperback)
Anyone who's been to a quant finance interview knows how difficult some of the analytical and technical questions can be. I recently bought this book (thank you, Amazon Prime!) to prepare for an upcoming interview, and was really impressed by the 200+ questions the author has collected as well as provided detailed solutions for. I've definitely seen some of the questions in real before, so I believe the author when he says these are real-world questions. This is a valuable guide for anyone going into quant interviews. If you're a newbie to the quant job market, this book goes well with another book, written by this book's editor, called Starting Your Career as a Wall Street Quant: A Practical, No-BS Guide to Getting a Job in Quantitative Finance and Launching a Lucrative Career which is more about general advice and tips.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Helps deal with quantitative interviews in finance,
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This review is from: A Practical Guide To Quantitative Finance Interviews (Paperback)
First, you should really ignore Not Mee's comment, because he apparently had never been to a real quantitative finance interview. I have interviewed at big banks and hedge funds, and 95% of the analytical questions revolve around math, stats and programming, even though I have a finance background. The 5% that do involve finance is mostly about fundamental finance concepts like how you value an option. Quants are developers, so they are not expected to know a lot of finance like a Wharton MBA would be expected.I like this book because, first, it's not pretentious and doesn't constantly imply you are an idiot like another more expensive book written by a former MIT person does. (That book keeps saying something like if you can't solve this question, you should go become a homeless. Very annoying.) Second, it gives you very detailed solutions, pretty much step-by-step. Every solution is almost like a tutorial, so if you don't really understand an answer, you are literally held by the hand to walk through the solution. Of course, people like myself are actually dumb (I recently tested for my IQ and it was pretty low), so I have trouble with a lot of math questions. But the book at least allows me to know what the "right" answer is like. With a little BS, I can actually convince people I know the answer, although so far that hasn't landed me a job yet. But at least, I come across as someone who's technically competent. The only significant omisison of the book is programming questions, like those covering topics in C++, C#, Java, SAS, Perl, Ruby, etc.
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