Quantitative Strategy Interview Questions

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Suppose that you have a fair coin. You start with $0. You win 1$ each time you get a head and loose $1 each time you get tails. Calculate the probability of getting $2 without getting below $0 at any time.
Apr 11, 2012

Suppose that you have a fair coin. You start with $0. You win 1$ each time you get a head and loose $1 each time you get tails. Calculate the probability of getting $2 without getting below $0 at any time.

1. SQL: there are three tables, Table Students with fields (StudentID, LastName, FirstName, …), table Subjects with fields (SubjectID, SubjectName, Credit), and table Grades with fields (StudentID, SubjectID, Grade). Write a query to calculate GPA for each student.
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Fixed Income Quantitative Strategies Intern

Interviewed at PineBridge Investments

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May 10, 2018

1. SQL: there are three tables, Table Students with fields (StudentID, LastName, FirstName, …), table Subjects with fields (SubjectID, SubjectName, Credit), and table Grades with fields (StudentID, SubjectID, Grade). Write a query to calculate GPA for each student.

3. Use R or Python, download last 1 year of daily equity prices in Dow Jones Industrial Average Index from any online data source, and calculate each stock’s beta using all 1-year daily prices. Output to c:\temp stock betas in a text file dow_betas.txt.
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Fixed Income Quantitative Strategies Intern

Interviewed at PineBridge Investments

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May 10, 2018

3. Use R or Python, download last 1 year of daily equity prices in Dow Jones Industrial Average Index from any online data source, and calculate each stock’s beta using all 1-year daily prices. Output to c:\temp stock betas in a text file dow_betas.txt.

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