I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at QuantInsti Quantitative Learning (Pune) in Jan 2022
Interview
First applied online via IIM-Jobs, then was shortlisted for a phone discussion in which my previous experience was discussed, then had 1 phone interview in which I had to explain my previous work experience and interest in applying for this role. Then after clearing this, I was given an assignment to write a blog on machine learning in trading. I also had to write a document on what you understand from this role and why you want to join this role. Then finally also had a jupyter notebook assignment in which we had to create a supervised machine learning strategy on when to buy or sell a stock. After submitting the assignment, I had a technical interview in which the interview was focussed on the assignment submission and technical questions related to it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were related to what is train-test contamination, various scaling strategies in machine learning, what is l2 loss function and why it is preferred over l1 loss in gradient descent.
The process is smooth. The interview process consists of four stages: starting with an initial HR interview, followed by a take-home Python assessment, then a technical interview, and finally a Director-level interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions related to the take-home python assessment