A Practical Guide To Quantitative Finance Interviews
Product Description
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… More >>
A little bit deviates from what I thought. I haven’t read through it because it does not attract me so much to put other things aside.
Rating: 4 / 5
The hardest part was faking like I hadn’t heard the questions before. I was amazed, this book got me a flyout at a prop trading firm, and very nearly got my the position–on my first qaunt finance interview ever.
Rating: 5 / 5
The book is simply horrible:
1) The title is misleading, there is almost nothing in the book about quant finance.
Chapter 6 “Finance” is a short(30 pages) review of option pricing and can be found in any other quant finance book. The rest is a collection of random math questions and puzzles that can be found anywhere. For puzzles one can read Quantnet or wilmott forums, for math questions consult your textbooks.
2) The book feels weird and unprofessional. It is pretty obvious that no corrector/editor worked on this book. Page dimensions are weird too. The material is typed in a hurry, very messy and sloppy.
3) Most of the material is well-known. I did not participate in math Olympiads
and was never interested in puzzles, but somehow I heard about almost all of the puzzles in the book. They are simply math folklore that almost everybody knows.
To sum up, this book has nothing to offer to anybody preparing for quant interviews. Instead you should read Joshi’s book on interviews, “Heard on the street”, and read quantnet / wilmott. Do not waste your money on this book!
Rating: 1 / 5
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.
Rating: 5 / 5
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.
Rating: 5 / 5