AQR Capital Management Online Assessment
AQR is a systematic factor fund, not a high-frequency shop, so its assessment rewards clean analytical reasoning and statistics over speed games. The screen comes in two flavors: a CodeSignal / HackerRank coding OA (75 to 90 min, 3 problems drawn from a rotating bank), or a recruiter-sent take-home pairing a short algorithms document with a math document of about 8 GRE-level MCQs (geometry, counting, probability, algebra, no calculus). The pipeline is OA or take-home, then a CS-fundamentals / design phone, then an onsite or superday; the QR and PhD track adds research and statistics depth in every round.
Quant / QR take-home — Math screen
One recruiter-sent variant pairs an algorithms document with a math document of about 8 GRE-level multiple-choice questions plus 2 bonus. The math is high-school / GRE level (geometry, counting, probability, algebra) with NO calculus; the reported hurdle is careful English reading, not the math itself. Take the timed screen below.
Quant / SDE — CodeSignal/HackerRank (3 problems, rotating bank)
The screening OA is 3 problems from a rotating ~20-problem bank (islands/union-find, sparse-table range queries - the TLE trap, bounded knapsack, DP, string transforms). The recurring problems below are auto-graded.
- Range Queries for Max(d[i] - d[j]) with i <= j (the TLE trap) Coding · medium
- Cake Thief (Bounded Knapsack) Coding · medium
- Split at Digit Boundaries and Sort Each Run Coding · medium
- Counting Friend Circles Coding · medium · free
- Recover the Matrix From Its 2D Prefix Sums Coding · medium
- Maximum Score Path With Bounded Jumps Coding · medium
- Subarrays Containing Exactly m Odd Numbers Coding · medium
- Count Pairs With a Given Difference Coding · easy
- Minimum Swaps to Move All Evens Ahead of Odds Coding · easy
- Minimum Insertions to Make a String a Palindrome Coding · medium
- Sort Integers by Popcount Then Value Coding · easy
AQR Capital Management OA — FAQ
What is the AQR Capital Management online assessment?
AQR is a systematic factor fund, not a high-frequency shop, so its assessment rewards clean analytical reasoning and statistics over speed games. The screen comes in two flavors: a CodeSignal / HackerRank coding OA (75 to 90 min, 3 problems drawn from a rotating bank), or a recruiter-sent take-home pairing a short algorithms document with a math document of about 8 GRE-level MCQs (geometry, counting, probability, algebra, no calculus). The pipeline is OA or take-home, then a CS-fundamentals / design phone, then an onsite or superday; the QR and PhD track adds research and statistics depth in every round.
What is the format of the AQR Capital Management OA?
It runs as 2 tracks (Math screen, CodeSignal/HackerRank (3 problems, rotating bank)). Quant / QR take-home, Quant / SDE — each timed, auto-graded where applicable.
How do I practice for the AQR Capital Management online assessment?
Work the sample questions above (each with a full worked solution), then take the interactive AQR Capital Management OA practice on QuantVault. For the full interview, see the AQR Capital Management interview-questions set.