Who's heard of WorldQuant?I applied for a position with them and they sent me an email containing the following:"We are pleased to invite you to participate in our online exam. This exam serves as the first step in our interview process. The exam will contain critical thinking, probability, basic programming and logic questions."Does anyone know what kind of online exam questions they ask?Also please tell me what you know about the company.Thanks for your response.Dunrewpp

Very good firm, tough interview tho. They got spectacular performance last year, by the way. QuoteOriginally posted by: dunrewppWhose heard of WorldQuant?I applied for a position with them and they sent me an email containing the following:"We are pleased to invite you to participate in our online exam. This exam serves as the first step in our interview process. The exam will contain critical thinking, probability, basic programming and logic questions."Does anyone know what kind of online exam questions they ask?Also please tell me what you know about the company.Thanks for your response.Dunrewpp

i want to know as well ;D

QuoteOriginally posted by: JackShengVery good firm, tough interview tho. They got spectacular performance last year, by the way. the more spectacular the performance, the faster they will crash.

I got this email as well, it seems it is just an auto reply. what is funny is I got this email on 26, May and in the email they asked me to reply no later than 25, May.

QuoteOriginally posted by: tigerbillI got this email as well, it seems it is just an auto reply. what is funny is I got this email on 26, May and in the email they asked me to reply no later than 25, May.You are right, that's an auto reply email

QuoteOriginally posted by: quantspotQuoteOriginally posted by: tigerbillI got this email as well, it seems it is just an auto reply. what is funny is I got this email on 26, May and in the email they asked me to reply no later than 25, May.You are right, that's an auto reply emailActually, I received that email as well and I responded. I then received another email to schedule the test.The test is not easy and many questions are trivial but many probability questions are hard. You should have seen questions like those earlier to be able to solve them.

QuoteOriginally posted by: KackToodlesQuoteOriginally posted by: JackShengVery good firm, tough interview tho. They got spectacular performance last year, by the way. the more spectacular the performance, the faster they will crash. Not necessarily true,Renaissance is a good example, strong returns year after year

Who really knows how rentec has been doing since they went private, I doubt even the IRS really knows the truth.

QuoteOriginally posted by: nulix Not necessarily true,Renaissance is a good example, strong returns year after yearOnly the Medallion fund is doing well. The other equity fund did poorly in 2008 and had huge redemptions.

Hi,Do you remember approximately some of the hard questions in probability?How do you advice to get ready for this exam?Thank you very much,

QuoteOriginally posted by: iliketopologyQuoteOriginally posted by: quantspotQuoteOriginally posted by: tigerbillI got this email as well, it seems it is just an auto reply. what is funny is I got this email on 26, May and in the email they asked me to reply no later than 25, May.You are right, that's an auto reply emailActually, I received that email as well and I responded. I then received another email to schedule the test.The test is not easy and many questions are trivial but many probability questions are hard. You should have seen questions like those earlier to be able to solve them.Hi,Do you remember approximately some of the hard questions in probability?How do you advice to get ready for this exam?Thank you very much,

QuoteOriginally posted by: quantjuniorQuoteOriginally posted by: iliketopologyQuoteOriginally posted by: quantspotQuoteOriginally posted by: tigerbillI got this email as well, it seems it is just an auto reply. what is funny is I got this email on 26, May and in the email they asked me to reply no later than 25, May.You are right, that's an auto reply emailActually, I received that email as well and I responded. I then received another email to schedule the test.The test is not easy and many questions are trivial but many probability questions are hard. You should have seen questions like those earlier to be able to solve them.Hi,Do you remember approximately some of the hard questions in probability?How do you advice to get ready for this exam?Thank you very much,the prob ones are standard hypergeometric, negative binomial stuff, the hardest questions were if you had never learned about prim's and kruskal's and analyzed run time etc and some other algorithm ones like minimum spanning trees in graphsthere was one question like 'binary search can not be applied to' A: Pointer arary, B:sorted binary tree, C:sorted linear array and some otherthat's all i remember

QuoteOriginally posted by: nov1ce the prob ones are standard hypergeometric, negative binomial stuff, the hardest questions were if you had never learned about prim's and kruskal's and analyzed run time etc and some other algorithm ones like minimum spanning trees in graphsthere was one question like 'binary search can not be applied to' A: Pointer arary, B:sorted binary tree, C:sorted linear array and some otherthat's all i rememberI got a call from WQ for a phone interview. Did you interview them as well? Considering that you seemed to have done the written test better, I am guessing you might have been short listed

Quoteprim's and kruskal's and analyzed run time etc and some other algorithm ones like minimum spanning trees in graphsGraph theory, what about Dijkstra's algorithm? Breadth/depth first??Actually, this stuff is very useful in lots of applications. But no one learns it any more at university (maybe OR?) How much maths do CS students do/learn these days?