Every quant firm on QuantVault runs its first-round online assessment on some platform, and the platform shapes the experience as much as the questions do: an SHL screen asks you to drag and arrange, a HackerRank screen forces fullscreen and grades hidden tests, a Mettl screen lets you use a calculator, a Criteria CCAT gives you 18 seconds a question. This page pulls the platform for all 42 firms in our OA census into one table, built from the same candidate reports that feed the per-firm guides, then explains what each platform's screen looks like and which of our replicas match it. Where our reports do not name a platform, the table says so rather than guessing.
Platform by firm: the full table
Platform, assessment name, timing and question types come from our per-firm OA guides and the OA census on this site. "Not named in our reports" means candidates described the test but not the vendor. Timing is the reported real-screen timing where we have it; replica timings are on the linked pages.
| Firm | Platform(s) | Assessment | Timing | Question types | Practice |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akuna Capital | HackerRank (QR coding; 2027 quant coding challenge, fullscreen proctored), EasyHire (QR math OA, camera on), recorded video (trader round 3) | 2027 Quant Coding Challenge (Python); QR Math OA; trader video game round | 3 of a 7-problem pool in 120 min; about 8 to 10 math questions; about 23 questions in 25 min (video) | Python algorithms; calculus, linear algebra and probability teasers with spoken reasoning; letter-wager EV game | Guide · QR math replica · Round-3 simulator |
| AQR Capital Management | CodeSignal or HackerRank (coding OA); recruiter take-home (math MCQ) | QR / SDE coding OA, or take-home math document | 3 problems in 75 to 90 min; about 8 GRE-level MCQ | Algorithms from a rotating bank; geometry, counting, probability, algebra, no calculus, no calculator | Guide · Math replica |
| Aquatic Capital | CodeSignal (engineering, reported) | Engineering coding OA | Not reported | Python coding; research-track contents undocumented | Guide |
| Bank of America | HireVue | Campus round-1 battery | About 30 min across 4 modules | Situational judgment, a business-case MCQ, a self-report questionnaire and 88 forced-choice pairs; not a quant test | Guide · Business-case replica |
| Barclays | SHL (interactive, Barclays-branded shell) | SHL interactive cognitive test | 8 questions in 12 min | Drag, drop, tap and arrange items: chart adjustment, scheduling, sequences | Guide · SHL replica |
| Belvedere Trading | Not named in our reports (timed multiple choice) | SWE 3-problem coding OA; trader / QR concept MCQ | 30 min + 1 h + 1 h (SWE); 22 questions (MCQ) | Order-book and trade-aggregation coding; options pricing, probability, regression and volatility MCQ | Guide · MCQ replica |
| Bridgewater Associates | Codility (software engineering); take-home cases and Excel (investment tracks) | SWE Codility set | 90 to 180 min, 4 to 5 problems | Topological sort, binary strings, a stack VM, prefix sums; no coding OA for investment tracks | Guide |
| Capstone Investment Advisors | Not named in our reports (timed online coding) | QR / QT coding OA | 1 known problem | Portfolio-weight capping with proportional redistribution | Guide |
| Citadel / Citadel Securities | HackerRank (SWE pool, DS datathon); phone or live screens plus a QT OA for quant tracks | SWE coding OA; QT OA; data-science datathon | 2 of about 40 problems in 70 min; about 15 fill-in questions; about 18 MCQ in 60 min | Rotating algorithm pool; probability and statistics fill-in; pandas / R plus stats and ML MCQ | Guide · QT replica |
| Chicago Trading Company (CTC) | SHL-style reasoning battery (candidate captures); a CCAT-style aptitude replica is on this site; Codility for software engineers (per our CTC OA guide) | Reasoning assessment (verbal + numerical); SE coding challenge | About 34 min battery (one account); about 3 problems (SE) | Reading passages with true / false / cannot-say items, numerical reasoning; arrays and stacks coding at easy-to-medium level | Guide · Reasoning replica · CCAT-style replica |
| D. E. Shaw | CodeSignal (SDE) | SDE CodeSignal OA | 4 problems in 90 min | Recurring algorithm bank; QR and QA tracks are live interviews; data analysts get a pandas take-home | Guide |
| DRW | Proprietary timed fill-in form (QR / QT), webcam proctored via Honorlock in the 2027 sitting; Codility-style coding (SDE) | 45-min math OA; SDE 150-min coding OA; AI / ML task | About 6 questions in 45 min; 3 problems in 150 min | Fill-in probability, matrices, Markov chains, CLT tails; correctness-graded coding with no hidden-test feedback | Guide · Math replica |
| Dynamic Technology Lab (DTL) | Proprietary written paper | Written math OA | 7 proof questions | Olympiad-style proofs: combinatorics, number theory, geometry, probability, linear algebra, game theory; no calculator | Guide · Written-math replica |
| Five Rings | Proprietary timed screen, camera on, no calculator | Mental-math / estimation OA (all tracks) | About 17 to 20 questions in 17 to 40 min | Fill-in probability, distributions and calculus estimation, roughly 30 to 60 seconds each | Guide · Free replica |
| Flow Traders | Not named in our reports (timed MCQ + coding; separate numerical and sequences modules for trading roles) | Trader / junior dev screen; numerical and sequences test | About 7 MCQ + 3 coding problems; about 8 min arithmetic plus about 25 min sequences | C++ and Python language quirks, coding, probability; mental arithmetic and number sequences with a wrong-answer penalty | Guide · Sequences replica · MCQ replica |
| G-Research | Not named in our reports | Quant quiz (general or ML variant); engineering coding test | 10 MCQ in about 90 min (reports vary) | General quant quiz or an ML-specific variant; automated coding test for engineers | Guide |
| GTS | Not named in our reports | Coding OA | Not reported | Sliding-window and DP coding | Guide |
| Headlands Technologies | Not named in our reports | Coding OA | Not reported | Data-structure design and streaming / order-book coding | Guide |
| Hudson River Trading (HRT) | HackerRank or CodeSignal | Algo Developer OA; SWE OA; Quant Analyst C++ screen | 3 problems in about 150 min; 2 to 4 problems in 70 to 120 min; 2 problems in 30 min | Classic algorithms and board simulation from a small canon; LeetCode-style coding; idiomatic modern C++ | Guide |
| IMC Trading | HackerRank (SWE; the quant math tests are described as HackerRank-style); SHL (Values and Mindset questionnaire, cognitive assessment) | QT 15-question math test; QR 11-question test; SWE 120-min coding; IMC Trader Assessment (2026) | 15 questions (QT); 11 questions (QR); 120 min, 2 hard problems (SWE); 76 triads, untimed (values) | Probability, EV and combinatorics; statistics and Bayes; hard algorithms; shape patterns plus a personality questionnaire | Guide · QT math replica · Cognitive replica · Values replica · 24-in-18 sequences |
| Jane Street | Written or HackerRank | Trader / QT / Research screen | About 4 questions in 30 min | Probability, expected value and mental math, with your reasoning explained | Guide · OA replica |
| JPMorgan | HackerRank (QR coding, Python 2 and 3 only); HireVue (recorded video); SHL (Values and Mindset) | NAMR Quantitative Research campus coding OA; HireVue; SHL values questionnaire | 2 questions in 60 min; 3 recorded questions; 76 triads, untimed | Python algorithms against the HackerRank harness; recorded answers; forced-choice personality items | Guide · QR coding replica · SHL values replica |
| Jump Trading | Codility (SWE); coding test (crypto QT); shell quiz (SRE) | C++ / Codility coding OA; crypto quant trader OA; SRE shell quiz | 3 to 4 problems in about 80 min to 4 hr; 3 problems in 1.5 hr; 40 min | Parsing and simulation in C++; knapsack and turn-game DP; Bash MCQ plus one DP task | Guide · SRE quiz replica |
| Millennium Management | Jupyter notebook take-home (QR intern); HackerRank (QR intern test, QD / SDE, data engineer, data scientist); Caliper (personality); Criteria CCAT reported as a screening step | 24-hour market-making project; HackerRank batteries; Caliper personality test | 4 challenges in 24 hours; 7 questions in 120 min; 6 questions in 3 hours; about 180 items | Market-making notebook; coding, SQL and ML MCQ; trait questionnaire | Guide · Criteria CCAT replica |
| Old Mission Capital | Not named in our reports for the QT speed test (timed multiple choice); Codility (SWE) | QT math / probability speed test; SWE Codility OA | 35 questions in 25 min; about 2 hr | Probability, counting, EV and Bayes at about 43 seconds each, no calculator; mixed CS MCQ plus about 2 coding problems | Guide · QT replica |
| Optiver | Proprietary in-browser modules (Number Logic, Beat the Odds, Likelihood, Zap-N games); CodeSignal (SWE); HackerRank (QR coding) | Number Logic; Beat the Odds; Zap-N; SWE OOD simulation; QR algorithm section | 26 sequences in 25 min; 30 probability questions at 90 s each; 75 to 90 min (SWE); 3 problems in 90 min (QR) | Sequences, rapid probability with +1 / -1 scoring, reaction and memory games; object-oriented simulations; trading-math algorithms | Guide · Number Logic replica · Beat the Odds replica |
| PDT Partners | Take-home | Coding take-home | Not reported | Clean algorithm and data-structure problems | Guide |
| Point72 / Cubist | HackerRank (QR, data scientist / analyst, developer); take-home (data roles) | Cubist QR Python OA; pandas + SQL OA; developer task-scheduler test | 5 questions; 4 questions; 1 question in 3 hours | Python with no external packages; pandas and SQL; scheduler design with stated complexities | Guide |
| Quantlab Financial | Not named in our reports | Coding / quant screen | Not reported | Algorithmic coding plus applied math; the live ETF and trading interview is the real filter | Guide |
| Qube Research and Technologies | HackerRank | QR / QD coding OA | 3 captured problems | Trading-flavored algorithms graded on correctness and efficiency | Guide |
| Radix Trading | Not named in our reports | C++ coding OA | 60 to 90 min | C++ implementation and numerical problems | Guide |
| Renaissance Technologies | Not named in our reports | Timed screen | Not reported | Clean algorithm problems mixed with applied-statistics tasks | Guide |
| Schonfeld Strategic Advisors | Not named in our reports (timed online coding) | QR coding OA | 2 problems | One easy, one hard, candidate-reported | Guide |
| Susquehanna (SIG) | Mettl (Mercer) for the trader / QR math screen, calculator allowed; proctored coding (SWE); CodeSignal (Strategy Developer) | SIG Quantitative Evaluation; SIG Quantitative Assessment 2027 set; SWE coding OA; StratDev test; Capital Markets finance OA | 17 questions in 60 min; 3 new families; 4 problems; 4 problems; 23 questions in 25 min | Probability, EV, Bayes, gambler's ruin, lattice DP; clean modeling coding; valuation and market knowledge | Practice page · 17-question replica · 2027 set replica |
| Squarepoint Capital | HackerRank (multi-section) | Desk Quant / QR screen; SWE Python set; data-pipeline task | About 4 MCQ + 2 coding; 2 to 3 problems; 1 problem in 75 min | Statistics and identify-the-bias MCQ gate then coding, every part must pass; Python parsing without pandas | Guide · Screen replica |
| Tower Research Capital | HackerRank (developer OA, self-written IO); phone screen (QR / QT) | Developer coding OA; QR / QT probability screen | 4 problems in 75 min; about 13 questions in 45 min (phone) | Difference arrays, heaps, parsers; probability brain-teasers with reasoning shown | Guide · QR probability replica |
| Two Sigma | HackerRank; CodeSignal for some 2021 intern cycles | SWE OA; QR / data-science OA | 2 problems in 75 min; 3 problems in about 3 h | Rotating SWE pool refreshed in late 2025; a frozen 3-problem data-science set | Guide |
| Virtu Financial | CodeSignal-style (reported) | 5-problem coding OA; PhD quantitative strategist OA | 5 problems; 4 problems in 90 min | Algorithms where sort order, overflow and edge cases are the traps; finance-flavored modeling | Guide |
| The Voleon Group | Proprietary (stdin / stdout) | Coding OA or take-home; data analyst OA | 5 problems in 1 to 1.5 hr; 5 questions in 1 hr | Exchange-simulation and classic coding; 4 SQL plus 1 pandas task | Guide |
| Wincent Capital Management | Testlify (webcam snapshots, mandatory fullscreen) | Quant test | 12 questions in 100 min, two sections | Probability and expected value, numeric entry, simple calculator allowed, no coding | Guide · Quant test replica |
| WorldQuant | HackerRank (software developer, data scientist); QR math test (platform not named in our reports) | Software Developer hiring test; Data Scientist OA; QR math test | 2 coding + 4 MCQ; 4 problems in 120 min; not reported | Algorithms plus CS-fundamentals MCQ; performance-gated coding with one problem in C++; probability, statistics, calculus and mental math | Guide · Concepts replica |
| XTX Markets | TestGorilla or take-home reported (QR); HackerRank-style reported (engineering) | QR ML + probability screen; engineering coding | About 20 questions in about 60 to 120 min; 2 to 3 problems in 60 to 90 min | Machine learning, statistics and probability with no going back; medium-to-hard algorithms | Guide |
For the live rows with free and Pro labels, use the all-firms OA practice hub. For format-first explanations (math screens, coding tests, cognitive batteries, game simulations) see the quant online assessment guide, and for the basics of what an OA is, the primer.
SHL: interactive cognitive items and the Values and Mindset questionnaire
What the screen looks like. Barclays' early-careers screen is the clearest capture: the instructions page says the test is activity-based rather than a set of response options, and the sitting runs 8 questions in 12 minutes in a Barclays-branded SHL shell. Items ask you to arrange a stacked bar chart or resize a pie chart from a short data panel, tap calendar dates or drag procedures onto a timeline for scheduling puzzles, and fill a figure sequence. IMC's cognitive assessment uses the same interactive style: tap-to-fill figure sequences on green and purple-dot grids, and drag-the-line node chains. The SHL Values and Mindset questionnaire that IMC and JPMorgan campus candidates report is untimed: 76 triads of first-person statements, pick the one most like you, then the better of the remaining two, so every item becomes a full ranking, with deliberate near-repeat items.
What it tends to test. The cognitive items are numerical and logical reasoning against a short clock, with the interaction itself (dragging the right bar to the right height) part of the task. The values questionnaire has no correct answers; what the platform measures is the shape and consistency of your profile. CTC's captured OA is described as an SHL-style reasoning battery: two short reading passages with true, false or cannot-say judgments and reading-comprehension MCQs, typically alongside numerical reasoning.
Replicas that match. Barclays SHL interactive cognitive test, IMC cognitive assessment (both item types, timed 12-item runs or untimed practice), IMC Values and Mindset, JPMorgan SHL Values and Mindset, and the CTC reasoning assessment.
HackerRank: auto-graded coding, and some math screens too
What the screen looks like. Akuna's 2027 quant coding challenge forces fullscreen and runs a multiple-monitor check, 3 Python questions in 120 minutes drawn from a shared 7-problem pool. JPMorgan's NAMR quant research OA is 2 sections with one Python question each, Python 2 and 3 only, solved as a single function against the HackerRank harness, and the 60-minute timer cannot be paused once started. Point72's Cubist QR OA is 5 Python questions with no external packages. Squarepoint's screen is multi-section and every part must pass. Tower Research's developer OA expects self-written input and output handling. Not every HackerRank sitting is coding: Jane Street's trader screen is described as written or HackerRank-hosted, about 4 probability questions in 30 minutes where you explain your reasoning, and IMC's 15-question trader test and 11-question researcher test are described as HackerRank-style, mixing multiple choice with numeric entry.
What it tends to test. Hidden test cases and time limits: Citadel draws 2 of about 40 problems in 70 minutes, Two Sigma runs 2 problems in 75 minutes for SWE and a frozen 3-problem data-science set in about 3 hours, HRT's algo developer OA is 3 problems in about 150 minutes from a small recycled canon, IMC's SWE test is 120 minutes with 2 hard problems where you optimize or time out, WorldQuant's data scientist OA is 4 performance-gated problems in 120 minutes with one in C++, and Millennium's quant developer battery is 6 questions in 3 hours. WorldQuant's software developer test adds a 4-item CS-fundamentals MCQ section next to its 2 coding problems.
Replicas that match. Akuna 2027 quant coding challenge, JPMorgan NAMR QR coding OA, Squarepoint screen, WorldQuant concepts section, Citadel datathon, IMC trader math test, IMC researcher test and Jane Street OA. The recurring coding problems for Citadel, Two Sigma, HRT, Point72, Millennium and Qube RT are auto-graded on each firm's guide page linked in the table.
Codility: long engineering sets
What the screen looks like. Jump Trading's main screen is a Codility C++ (or Python) set of 3 to 4 problems that candidates report taking anywhere from about 80 minutes to 4 hours, with long statements heavy on string parsing and simulation plus a couple of bit and greedy insight problems. Bridgewater's software engineering set runs 90 to 180 minutes with 4 to 5 problems headlined by the recurring "Computing the whole world" topological-sort problem. Old Mission's software track is a Codility set of about 2 hours mixing CS multiple choice with about 2 coding problems, often a recurring JSON-string parser. Our CTC OA guide records software engineering candidates reporting a Codility challenge of around three data-structures-and-algorithms problems at an easy-to-medium level. DRW's 150-minute, 3-problem SDE screen is described as Codility-style, with no hidden-test feedback while you work.
What it tends to test. Correctness on long, precisely specified problems rather than clever algorithms: parsing, simulation, stack machines, prefix sums, and edge cases you must find yourself because feedback is limited.
Practice that matches. The recurring problems are auto-graded on the Jump Trading, Bridgewater, Old Mission and DRW guide pages. Jump's separate SRE shell quiz has a timed replica.
CodeSignal: LeetCode-style sets and Optiver's simulations
What the screen looks like. D. E. Shaw's SDE screen is 4 problems in 90 minutes from a recurring bank, reported as harder than most peer OAs. AQR's coding OA is 3 problems in 75 to 90 minutes from a rotating bank of about 20, with a sparse-table range-query problem known as a time-limit trap. Optiver's software OA is one or two long object-oriented simulation problems built around a trading-flavored scenario, 75 to 90 minutes each, followed by a CS-knowledge MCQ of about 20 questions. HRT's SWE screen is often a CodeSignal "General" resume-screen auto-send at medium difficulty, Two Sigma used a proctored CodeSignal screen drawing 4 random problems for some 2021 intern cycles, and SIG's Strategy Developer track has a 4-problem CodeSignal test. Virtu's 5-problem trader, developer and SRE bank is described as CodeSignal-style; Aquatic Capital's engineering OA is reported as CodeSignal in Python.
What it tends to test. Classic algorithm problems where the last method and the corner cases are where candidates run out of time; at Optiver, implementing a small class with a handful of methods under a trading-flavored story.
Practice that matches. Auto-graded recurring problems on the D. E. Shaw, AQR, Optiver, Virtu and SIG pages, plus the AQR take-home math replica for the non-coding variant.
Criteria (CCAT): 50 questions in 15 minutes
What the screen looks like. A Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test is 50 questions in 15 minutes, which is 18 seconds a question, across verbal, math and logic, and spatial items. Two firms on this site have CCAT-style replicas: Chicago Trading Company, whose trading candidates report a CCAT-style aptitude test, and Millennium, whose candidates report the Criteria CCAT as a screening step. Note that CTC's captured OA in our census is recorded as an SHL-style reasoning battery; both formats have replicas, so prepare for the one your invitation names.
What it tends to test. Pacing above everything: most candidates do not finish, so the skill is deciding in a few seconds whether an item is worth its 18 seconds. Verbal analogies and vocabulary, arithmetic and word problems, number series, and spatial rotation all appear.
Replicas that match. CTC aptitude test replica, Millennium Criteria assessment replica, and the firm-agnostic CCAT-style practice test, each 50 generated questions in 15 minutes with a per-section breakdown.
Mettl: the SIG quantitative screen
What the screen looks like. SIG is the one firm in the table on Mercer Mettl. The trader and quant researcher screen, the SIG Quantitative Evaluation, is 17 questions in 60 minutes with a calculator allowed, and the question bank has recurred since 2019 with only the numbers changing between sittings. The first roughly 9 questions are quick probability and expected-value calculations and the last 8 step up to gambler's ruin, constraint logic and a lattice-path DP. A full 2027-cycle sitting leaked in mid-2026 with 16 of 17 problems recovered: 13 were number rotations of the classic bank and 3 families were new (a two-dice payoff-matrix EV with a doubles penalty, a stars-and-bars count, and an expected-consecutive-pairs linearity question). An August 2026 candidate reported the live test closely matched our replica with no genuinely unseen problems.
What it tends to test. Speed on a known bank. Because the families are fixed, drilling them until the setup is automatic is the whole strategy; the calculator removes arithmetic as an excuse.
Replicas that match. The SIG practice page with 3 free questions, the 17-question timed replica, and the SIG Quantitative Assessment 2027 set covering the three new families.
Other platforms and proprietary screens
- HireVue. Bank of America's campus round 1 is a HireVue battery of about 30 minutes in four modules: situational judgment, a business-case MCQ (the only module with right answers), a self-report questionnaire and 88 forced-choice personality pairs. JPMorgan candidates who clear the coding OA report a one-way HireVue with 3 questions, about 30 seconds of prep, a 2-minute maximum and one retry per answer. Replica: BofA business case.
- EasyHire. Akuna's second quant researcher screen is a camera-proctored EasyHire sitting on pen and paper: about five calculus and linear-algebra items where you verbalize your reasoning before answering, then three timed probability brain-teasers. Replica: Akuna QR math OA.
- Testlify. Wincent's quant test runs 12 numeric-entry questions in two sections (6 in 40 minutes, then 6 in 60 minutes) with random webcam snapshots, mandatory fullscreen and browser-extension detection; a simple calculator is allowed, you can skip but never revisit, and the test cannot be paused. Replica: Wincent quant test.
- TestGorilla. XTX Markets' researcher screen is reported as TestGorilla or a take-home, varying by year, about 20 ML, statistics and probability questions with no way back to a passed question.
- Caliper. Millennium's quant researcher interns take a Caliper personality assessment of about 180 items, forced-choice and abstract-reasoning, alongside the 24-hour Jupyter market-making project. It is not a coding or math test.
- Honorlock proctoring. A candidate-reported July 2026 DRW sitting for the 2027 quant research intern cycle ran 6 fill-in questions in 45 minutes with an on-screen calculator and Honorlock webcam proctoring. Replica: DRW 2027 QR sitting.
- Proprietary and unnamed screens. Five Rings runs its own timed screen with the camera on and no calculator, about 17 to 20 fill-in questions with a forced pause of about ten seconds before each (free replica). Optiver's Number Logic, Beat the Odds and Zap-N modules are in-browser with +1, -1 and 0 scoring (Number Logic, Beat the Odds). DTL sets a written proof paper. Old Mission's trader test is a fixed 35-question multiple-choice speed test in 25 minutes whose vendor our reports do not name (replica). Flow Traders' trading screen is described as an arithmetic sprint of about 8 minutes plus a sequences section of about 25 minutes with a wrong-answer penalty, vendor not named (free replica).
How to use the platform to prepare
Read your invitation email for the vendor name, find the row above, and practise in that format: interactive drag-and-arrange for SHL, fullscreen coding against hidden tests for HackerRank and Codility, a calculator at hand for Mettl, 18-second pacing for Criteria. Then work the firm's recurring question families on its guide page, because on most of these platforms the bank repeats: of the 20 firms where our census documents it, 18 reuse a stable or recurring bank year over year.
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Frequently asked questions
Is the CTC Codility OA automated?
Our CTC OA guide records software engineering candidates reporting a Codility coding challenge with around three data-structures-and-algorithms problems, arrays and stacks among them, at an easy-to-medium level. Our reports do not describe how it is graded or whether a human reviews it, so treat it as a standard auto-graded coding screen and test your own edge cases. Quant Trading Analyst candidates do not get Codility: they report a timed reasoning battery (SHL-style verbal and numerical items in the captured sitting), and a CCAT-style aptitude replica is also on this site.
How long is the IMC SHL assessment?
IMC's SHL Values and Mindset questionnaire is untimed: 76 forced-choice triads where you pick the statement most like you and then the better of the remaining two. IMC's SHL-style cognitive assessment is timed; our replica runs timed 12-item sets of both item types (tap-to-fill figure sequences and drag-the-line node chains), and our reports do not give an official per-item clock. The math screens are separate: the 15-question trader test and 11-question researcher test are described as HackerRank-style, and our replicas allow 30 and 40 minutes for them.
Does Walleye Capital use HackerRank?
We have no candidate report of a Walleye Capital online assessment on HackerRank or any other platform, so Walleye is not in the table above. Our Walleye page covers 42 reported interview problems spanning probability and brain-teasers, statistics and regression, portfolio optimization and data-handling coding, which is what candidates describe from the interview rounds.
Is the WorldQuant test on HackerRank?
Yes for the software developer and data scientist tracks. The software developer hiring test pairs 2 coding problems with 4 single-answer CS-fundamentals MCQs (complexity, hash tables, heaps, sort stability); the data scientist OA is 4 performance-gated problems in 120 minutes, one of which must be in C++. The quant researcher track opens with a timed math test of probability, statistics, calculus and mental math, and our reports do not name its platform.
Is the Virtu Financial coding test on Codility?
Our reports describe Virtu's screen as CodeSignal-style: a recurring 5-problem algorithmic bank shared by the quant trader, developer and SRE tracks, where sort order, integer overflow and edge cases are the usual traps, plus a newer 4-problem, 90-minute finance-flavored OA for PhD quantitative strategists and a separate FPGA hardware OA. No report in our data names Codility for Virtu.
Does Point72 use HackerRank?
Yes. Point72's quant and data hiring runs through Cubist, and the assessments are HackerRank batteries that differ by track: a 5-question Cubist quant researcher Python OA with no external packages, a pandas and SQL data scientist or analyst OA of 4 questions, and a single 3-hour developer task-scheduler problem. Data roles add a multi-part take-home.
What platform is the Old Mission quant trader test on?
Candidates describe the Old Mission quant trader OA as a fixed 35-question multiple-choice speed test in 25 minutes, the same questions in the same order for every candidate, with no calculator; our reports do not name the hosting vendor, and none mentions HackerRank. The software track is a Codility set of about two hours with mixed CS multiple choice and about two coding problems.
Does Akuna Capital use Canditech?
Our Akuna reports name HackerRank, with CodeSignal also mentioned, for the quant researcher Python coding OA and for the 2027 quant coding challenge, EasyHire for the camera-proctored QR math OA, and a recorded-video platform for the trader round-3 game. No report in our data mentions any other assessment vendor for Akuna, so we cannot confirm one.
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