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A Practical Guide To Quantitative Finance Interviews

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An excellent book to ace wall street quant interviews
What I like most about this book is that it has detailed step by step solutions to the many many real world interview questions included in it. It explains how to approach common (and many not so common) problems --from analyzing the problem, breaking it down to its parts, to arriving at a good answer.It changes the way one thinks rather than provide mechanical canned answers.. Unlike a few other books that have been in the market this one has greater breadth and depth.I'd recommend the book to both job seekers and interviewers.
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May 26, 2008 (Citi Alternative Investments, New York) | Helpful Votes: 12 | Rating: 5

Lots of quant interview questions and detailed solutions!
Anyone who's been to a quant finance interview knows how difficult some of the analytical and technical questions can be. I recently bought this book (thank you, Amazon Prime!) to prepare for an upcoming interview, and was really impressed by the 200+ questions the author has collected as well as provided detailed solutions for. I've definitely seen some of the questions in real before, so I believe the author when he says these are real-world questions. This is a valuable guide for anyone going into quant interviews. If you're a newbie to the quant job market, this book goes well with another book, written by this book's editor, called which is more about general advice and tips.
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June 2, 2008 (NY - USA) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5

Helps deal with quantitative interviews in finance
First, you should really ignore Not Mee's comment, because he apparently had never been to a real quantitative finance interview. I have interviewed at big banks and hedge funds, and 95% of the analytical questions revolve around math, stats and programming, even though I have a finance background. The 5% that do involve finance is mostly about fundamental finance concepts like how you value an option. Quants are developers, so they are not expected to know a lot of finance like a Wharton MBA would be expected.I like this book because, first, it's not pretentious and doesn't constantly imply you are an idiot like another more expensive book written by a former MIT person does. (That book keeps saying something like if you can't solve this question, you should go become a homeless. Very annoying.) Second, it gives you very detailed solutions, pretty much step-by-step. Every solution is almost like a tutorial, so if you don't really understand an answer, you are literally...
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August 25, 2010 (Mother Earth) | Helpful Votes: 6 | Rating: 5

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This book will prepare you for quantitative finance interviews by helping you zero in on the key concepts that are frequently tested in such interviews. In this book we analyze solutions to more than 200 real interview problems and provide valuable insights into how to ace quantitative interviews. The book covers a variety of topics that you are likely to encounter in quantitative interviews: brain teasers, calculus, linear algebra, probability, stochastic processes and stochastic calculus, finance and programming. Top to learn more

DEMYSTIFYING THE JOB SEARCH PROCESS IN QUANTITATIVE FINANCE: a practical guide for entry-level quants

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Excellent guide for quantitative finance job hunt
Unlike many materials written on the subject, this manual is primarily written for individuals who are not the most obvious candidates for quantitative finance or financial engineering jobs. In the manual, these individual are referred as "disadvantaged candidates" or DC. Being a DC myself, I found this manual very useful and I changed my way of thinking about the entire job hunting process in the quantitative finance.The most important asset of the book is that the author tells his own stories of entry level job hunting in quantitative finance, dealing with headhunters as well as his experience after he landed his dream job. He touches various issues ranging from how and where to find quantitative finance/ financial engineering job openings in the first place to how to impress potential employers and get your dream job. The author explains the role that networking with other people close to the field plays. Different techniques on how to network through different social...
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August 10, 2011 (Los Angeles, USA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

Valuable tips for quant job candidates who need guidance
This e-book, currently only available on the Kindle (but readable on Kindle apps for the PC and other devices), is expressly written for what the author calls a "disadvantaged candidate" in quantitative finance. He says if you satisfy some or all of the following conditions, you are a disadvantaged candidate and can potentially gain from the firsthand insights he gained from five years of job hunting and shares in the e-book:1.You are an entry-level candidate2.You require work permit to work in the U.S.3.The financial job market is in recession4.Your school is not considered top-tier in the quant finance community5.The connections between your school and the quant industry are weak6.Your communication and interview skills are not strong7.You live or study far away from any major financial centersThe job search ideas the author puts forth are very interesting and many are helpful. The last chapter, clarifying how to get...
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March 17, 2011 (New England, USA) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

Introduction from the author
There are numerous "generic" job search books that are supposed to help regardless of what sector of the job market you target. Quantitative Finance and Financial Engineering jobs are also covered in a few sources. These manuals focus mainly on mastering the quantitative part of the job interview. "Behavioral", or "soft" questions are usually glossed over. The biggest problem is that the available advice on how to get interviews in the first place is insufficient and lacking in specificity. For instance, I liked the book of Jiu, , that I got back in 2007, but only a fraction of it (Chapter 3) was dedicated to the job search techniques. The corresponding chapter in its new 2010 edition,...
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January 30, 2011 (New York, NY, USA) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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You are about to launch a great career in the field of Quantitative Finance. Your university is a top school that has produced a long line of successful quants. It is located next to a major financial center. That, combined with your excellent communication skills, allows you to take a full advantage of the numerous networking opportunities. The quant job market is booming, and you do not require a special authorization to work in this country.

What if you are not similarly blessed, but still want to find a quant position? This book will help you out. It is aimed at aspiring quants whose job search can be hampered by any sort of departure from this ideal situation. The guide also offers a fresh approach to the “soft” part of the interview process. A bonus chapter will show you how to boost your resume by obtaining Brainbench C++ certification.

Written with 12-size font in MS Word, the volume is about 70 pages. The book is available on Kindle only, but you do not need the Kindle device to read it. Download a free application from Amazon.com (Kindle for PC, Mac, etc.) and read it on your computer. The application will also allow you to obtain a free sample that spans the first two or three chapters. The table of contents is reproduced below.

1. Introduction: who should read this manual?

2. What to expect from this book

3. Thinking like a quant: what NOT to do and why

4. Building the core of your own job search machine

4.1 Time for a bold, unstoppable plan: your overall strategy
4.2 LinkedIn : a game of very large numbers
4.3 Seizing the beachhead: your profile and connections
4.4 How many would attend your funeral? Starting your network
4.5 And I will make you fishers of men: extending your network
4.6 A cry from afar: Introductions and Inmails

5. Conventional job search tools: a second glance

5.1 Companies: big fish and small fry
5.2 Job boards: their name is legion
5.3 In-person networking and its ROI
5.4 Do not be a prey: exploiting headhunters

6. Beyond LinkedIn: leveraging other social media

6.1 Haven’t lost your job yet? Join Facebook!
6.2 Twitter: chirping your way into a job?
6.3 Doostang: simple folk may apply
6.4 Bloomberg: a truly exclusive network
6.5 FinRoad: a quiet paradise

7. Time for battle: the active phase of your job search

7.1 Internships
7.2 Permanent positions

8. What is your main weakness? Interviewing

8.1 A beast of six heads: types of interview questions
8.2 Behavioral interviewing: a happy marriage
8.3 The true face of your future spouse
8.4 Brain-teasers: keeping the universe in balance

9. How do we know that you know C++? Getting certified.

10. Conclusion and online FAQ

11. References

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Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance

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Excellent Review of Quantitative Finance Topics
I am working through my master's degree in Financial Engineering (quantitative track) and this book is almost bar-none one of the best references I have found. It starts out with a FAQ that covers almost all of the important questions such as:-What are the different types of Mathematics found in Quantitative Finance?-What is CAPM?-What is Maximum Likelihood Estimation?-What is Ito's lemma?-What are the 'greeks'?-How robust is the Black-Scholes model?The answers are short yet at the same time very useful. Each answer has well thought out examples that allow you to get to the core of the topic. At the end of each answer there are references if you want to explore the topic in more detail.The book then has sections on:-Most Popular Probability Distributions and Their Uses in Finance-Ten Different Ways to Derive Black-Scholes-Models and Equations-The Black-Scholes formula and the Greeks...
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March 4, 2008 (NY USA) | Helpful Votes: 29 | Rating: 5

Great little book
This is a very helpful little manual. No serious student or derivatives pro should be without it. It covers many of the practically relevant aspects of derivatives pricing in a very original and lucid way, thereby opening new perspectives even for the seasoned pro. I give it to juniors in my team (and should be giving it to many senior colleagues too.).Some of the most outstanding chapters:- Ten Different Ways to Derive Black/Scholes- The Most Popular Search Words and Phrases on Wilmott.com- Paul & Dominics Guide to Getting a Quant Job- Popular Quant Books
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February 24, 2008 (Frankfurt) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 5

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Getting agreement between finance theory and finance practice is important like never before. In the last decade the derivatives business has grown to a staggering size, such that the outstanding notional of all contracts is now many multiples of the underlying world economy. No longer are derivatives for helping people control and manage their financial risks from other business and industries, no, it seems that the people are toiling away in the fields to keep the derivatives market afloat! (Apologies for the mixed metaphor!) If you work in derivatives, risk, development, trading, etc. you'd better know what you are doing, there's now a big responsibility on your shoulders.

In this second edition of Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance I continue in my mission to pull quant finance up from the dumbed-down depths, and to drag it back down to earth from the super-sophisticated stratosphere. Readers of my work and blogs will know that I think both extremes are dangerous. Quant finance should inhabit the middle ground, the mathematics sweet spot, where the models are robust and understandable, and easy to mend.

…And that's what this book is about.

This book contains important FAQs and answers that cover both theory and practice. There are sections on how to derive Black-Scholes (a dozen different ways!), the popular models, equations, formulae and probability distributions, critical essays, brainteasers, and the commonest quant mistakes. The quant mistakes section alone is worth trillions of dollars!

I hope you enjoy this book, and that it shows you how interesting this important subject can be. And I hope you'll join me and others in this industry on the discussion forum on wilmott.com. See you there!”

FAQQF2...including key models, important formulae, popular contracts, essays and opinions, a history of quantitative finance, sundry lists, the commonest mistakes in quant finance, brainteasers, plenty of straight-talking, the Modellers' Manifesto and lots more. Top to learn more

The unfair advantage
If you have been away from the office for long or have been busy on a long boring project for months, this is the book to refresh your memory before you get back to quant world. It contains lots of quantitative finance-related need-to-know and a bit of nice-to-know information. It is written in a question-followed-by-answer format in witty English. Mostly questions collected from the online Wilmott FAQ project are featured. For those in a hurry short answers are provided first. For more detail a long answer including some math is also shown. When you start reading the FAQ section you do not want to stop which is a good thing. In a way the ease with which so much need-to-know information is made available makes you feel you are cheating - getting a sort-of unfair advantage on quant knowledge.However, some sections, for example the quant finance time line, brainteasers, frequent Wilmott search phrases and how to write a CV and prepare for a job interview seemed a bit...
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January 9, 2009 (Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 4

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Starting Your Career as a Wall Street Quant: A Practical, No-BS Guide to Getting a Job in Quantitative Finance

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Some Information About This Book
Hi, this is Brett Jiu, the author of the book. I'd like to use this review to give you more information about the book, since on Amazon.com most potential readers skip the product description section and come straight to the reviews section to get more info before buying.This book is the revised edition of my original book published in spring 2007. As you already know, things have changed quite a bit since that time. One or two of the big Wall Street firms mentioned in the 2007 edition have gone out of business, and there are definitely fewer quant jobs nowadays than before the 2008 financial meltdown hit us hard.The most important change, as far as the quant job market is concerned, is really the nature of quant jobs. Employer-wise, hedge funds now play a major role in hiring quants. Job-wise, programming is now the main focus of virtually all quant positions, whereas in the past many quants (like myself) spent a lot of time building models (what we quants...
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November 8, 2010 (New England, USA) | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 5

Solid Value
The book is a solid value @ $20 and provies quality insights into quant interviews. While I did not use this book to prepare for a quant position, it was with a "quant" firm and the book provided me with much needed guidance before my interview.The book is well written and even mildly amusing at times.Well worth my time to read and the price I paid (plus an extra $20 S&H to get it here on time).Thanks for publishing,NoSellSide
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February 7, 2011 (New York, NY, USA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

An excellent price-to-quality ratio
As an entry-level quant, I got the first edition of Dr. Jiu's book back in 2007 and I loved it. Along with a number of technical tips, from resume composition to evaluating job offers, it contains tons of useful information about the industry. It is designed to help one with career choice, as opposed to being a collection of quantitative problems encountered at job interviews. The 2010 edition, priced half as low as that of 2007, delivers a superior price-to-quality ratio.At the same time, I was disappointed that "Chapter 3: Hunting for Openings" remained unchanged since 2007. Let's face it: the quant job market in 2010 is different, and not in a good way. For an entry-level quant, the main issue is not how to get through job interviews, but how to get interviews in the first place. That is why I ended up writing my own book, ...
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January 30, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

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Now updated and revised to reflect industry changes in the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown! First published in 2007, this unique career guide focuses on the quantitative finance job market. Written specifically for readers who want to get into quantitative finance, this book covers everything you wanted to know about landing a quant job, from writing an effective resume to acing job interviews to negotiating a job offer. An experienced senior quant, the author offers tons of practical, no-BS advice and tips to guide you through the difficult process of getting a quant job, especially in today's weak economy. Top to learn more

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A Guide to Quantitative Finance: Tools and Techniques for Understanding and Implementing Financial Analytics

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Indispensable to become a senior quant analyst
If you decide to move on to become a senior quant analyst, Minenna's book is indispensable. The structure of the book is perfect and the choice of the topics is consistently defined. My synthetic comment is: it's a "strong buy".
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November 28, 2006 (NYC, NY USA) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

it's easy to read and alla math passages are well explalned
Finally a very useful book of mathematical finance. I found it very easy to read (for me this is essential) and complete. Every time I have any doubts about how to apply a model to price a derivative product i find the solution.
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October 6, 2006 (Washington usa) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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Are you applying quantitative methods without a full understanding of how they really work? Bridging the gap between mathematical theory and financial practice, A Guide to Quantitative Finance provides you with all the tools and techniques to comprehend and implement the quantitative models adopted in the financial markets.

With clearly explained theory and step-by-step instructions for building and using the equations, this comprehensive toolkit allows quantitative professionals, at all levels, to put derivative pricing and risk controlling models into practice.

Compiled by a leading professor of mathematical finance, Marcello Minenna, this extensive manual will enable you to:

understand the models adopted by the financial markets;
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develop the skills required to independently tailor new models to your own specific needs.

As well as an exhaustive reference guide for advanced practitioners and academics, this accessible manual is also designed for beginners and intermediate users to quickly grasp the complexities of quantitative finance.

This self-contained and methodical guide is all you will need to fully grasp the mathematics underlying the pricing of derivatives. And most importantly, will empower you to put your quantitative skills into practice. Top to learn more

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Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance 3 Volume Set (2nd Edition)

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Good summary, but of no use to a job seeker
I totally agree with the review of James Ward below. It really doesn't make sense to complain that a SUMMARY of any kind "doesn't cover x" or "glosses over y" because that's unavoidable.However, I'd like to shed some light of how large the "non-coverage" can be. For instance, you may think that if you have read what Wilmott has to say on Fixed Income Securities, you are at least familiar with the basics, but that's not the case. If you are an entry-level quant looking for a job who claimed to "know the fixed income" you are likely to answer the first 2-3 fixed income interview questions, but fail the rest - unless you add, like, 500 or more pages of fixed income material to what is given in Wilmott.So if your goal is to be able to claim (even a basic) knowledge of a certain QF topic in your resume, it's necessary to purchase a few good books dedicated entirely to that topic. And to find out what books are good, you don't really need Wilmott's references -...
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March 31, 2007 (Illinois, USA) | Helpful Votes: 11 | Rating: 5

If you plan to work in quant interest rate derivatives, you *must* read it
I have used this book to teach a quantitative course on Fixed Income and Interest Rate Derivatives to those Master-of-Science students who are ready to enter the job market. Several of them got jobs in the quant finance industry as a result of this course. They told me what kind of questions they had on interviews, e.g., "derive the risk-neutral drift of the general HJM model." This interview question may sound intimidating to the uninitiated. But thanks to the extraordinarily simple exposition given in Wilmott, my students were able to answer this and many other such questions.The math in this book is not complicated, if you read the book carefully. With some modest effort, you can figure out where the equations come from. Wilmott does a great job of showing only the relevant equations and hiding the less-important intermediate steps. Of course, if a reader bounces from section to section and expects to see everything clearly at the first glance, then he/she has...
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September 1, 2007 | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5

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Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, Second Edition provides a thoroughly updated look at derivatives and financial engineering, published in three volumes with additional CD-ROM.

Volume 1: Mathematical and Financial Foundations; Basic Theory of Derivatives; Risk and Return.
The reader is introduced to the fundamental mathematical tools and financial concepts needed to understand quantitative finance, portfolio management and derivatives. Parallels are drawn between the respectable world of investing and the not-so-respectable world of gambling.

Volume 2: Exotic Contracts and Path Dependency; Fixed Income Modeling and Derivatives; Credit Risk
In this volume the reader sees further applications of stochastic mathematics to new financial problems and different markets.

Volume 3: Advanced Topics; Numerical Methods and Programs.
In this volume the reader enters territory rarely seen in textbooks, the cutting-edge research. Numerical methods are also introduced so that the models can now all be accurately and quickly solved.

Throughout the volumes, the author has included numerous Bloomberg screen dumps to illustrate in real terms the points he raises, together with essential Visual Basic code, spreadsheet explanations of the models, the reproduction of term sheets and option classification tables. In addition to the practical orientation of the book the author himself also appears throughout the book—in cartoon form, readers will be relieved to hear—to personally highlight and explain the key sections and issues discussed.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. Top to learn more

We are better off with Wilmott's work than without it
Paul Wilmott has made quantitative finance his life's work, and this (now three volume) collection of his explications of his own fundamental work and the aggregation of the dispersed work of others is a welcome reference library in a field of increasing density.Here is the bad news; it doesn't contain everything.Here is the good news: it doesn't contain everything.And thank God, because if Wilmott had gone through each topic in the rigorous theorem-proof of yellow-spine Springer books we'd be old men before we got finished.Wilmott's critics usually center around three areas: tone, incompleteness (or sloppiness), and emphasis.On emphasis, Wilmott's strengths is his own material in partial differential equations (PDE approach), which makes sense as his earliest background was in the mathematics of fluid dynamics. Some readers, therefore, may detect that there is a heavier hand on PDEs over other analytic or numeric approaches,...
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February 4, 2007 (Ile de France) | Helpful Votes: 42 | Rating: 4

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If you’re a newbie to the quant job market, this book goes well with another book, written by this book’s editor, called Starting Your Career as a Wall Street Quant: A Practical, No-BS Guide to Getting a Job in Quantitative Finance and Launching a... This book will prepare you for quantitative finance interviews by helping you zero in on the key concepts that are frequently tested in such interviews. What I like most about this book is that it has detailed step by step solutions to the many many real world interview questions included in it. It explains how to approach common (and many not so common) problems –from analyzing the problem,... The book covers a variety of topics that you are likely to encounter in quantitative interviews: brain teasers, calculus, linear algebra, probability, stochastic processes and stochastic calculus, finance and programming. In this book we analyze solutions to more than 200 real interview problems and provide valuable insights into how to ace quantitative interviews. The 5% that do involve finance is mostly about fundamental finance concepts like how you value an option. I like this book because, first, it’s not pretentious and doesn’t constantly imply you are an idiot like another more expensive book written by a former MIT person does. First, you should really ignore Not Mee’s comment, because he apparently had never been to a real quantitative finance interview. Anyone who’s been to a quant finance interview knows how difficult some of the analytical and technical questions can be. I recently bought this book (thank you, Amazon Prime.

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