Virtu Financial Online Assessment
Virtu's screen is a coding OA whose pass rate it cares about - sort order, integer overflow, and edge cases are the usual traps. The Quant-Trader / dev / SRE tracks share a recurring 5-problem algorithmic bank; the PhD Quantitative-Strategist OA is a newer, finance-flavored 4-problem set (basket valuation, chocolates greedy, a pandas task). There is also a separate FPGA (Verilog) hardware OA - out of scope for the Python bank. The auto-graded problems are below.
Quant Trader / Dev / SRE — 5-problem coding OA
The recurring Virtu trader/dev bank, reused across the SRE OA too. Clean algorithmic problems where the gotchas are sorting, big-integer/overflow handling, and careful edge cases. All five are auto-graded below.
- Maximum Apples That Fit in a Box Coding · easy
- Counting Substrings of Identical Characters Coding · easy
- HexSpeak: Decimal to Speakable Hexadecimal Coding · easy
- Minimum Steps to the Nearest Fibonacci Number Coding · easy
- Stabilizing a Row of Student Scores Coding · medium
Quantitative Strategist (PhD) — 4-problem strategist OA
The newer PhD strategist OA leans finance + modeling: a recursive/compounded basket (ETF) fair value, a most-profitable-trade scan, a max-heap 'eat half the heaviest' chocolates greedy, and a pandas dataframe task. The three pure-function problems are auto-graded below (the pandas school-count task is practiced live).
- Minimum Total Weight After Halving Chocolates Coding · medium
- Maximum Profit from Stock Trades Coding · medium · free
- Fair Value of a Basket ETF Coding · medium
Virtu Financial OA — FAQ
What is the Virtu Financial online assessment?
Virtu's screen is a coding OA whose pass rate it cares about - sort order, integer overflow, and edge cases are the usual traps. The Quant-Trader / dev / SRE tracks share a recurring 5-problem algorithmic bank; the PhD Quantitative-Strategist OA is a newer, finance-flavored 4-problem set (basket valuation, chocolates greedy, a pandas task). There is also a separate FPGA (Verilog) hardware OA - out of scope for the Python bank. The auto-graded problems are below.
What is the format of the Virtu Financial OA?
It runs as 2 tracks (5-problem coding OA, 4-problem strategist OA). Quant Trader / Dev / SRE, Quantitative Strategist (PhD) — each timed, auto-graded where applicable.
How do I practice for the Virtu Financial online assessment?
Work the sample questions above (each with a full worked solution), then take the interactive Virtu Financial OA practice on QuantVault. For the full interview, see the Virtu Financial interview-questions set.