Quant Researcher applicants have rated the interview process at Five Rings with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 34.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Five Rings in Apr 2025
Interview
Had a 1 hour HR call, then got invited for a 1 hour interview with 5 yoe quant researcher.
The interviewer didn't bother using a proper headset and used the default webcam microphone, so was very difficult to understand. Also, I was quite surprised that none of the interview was about discussing my experience (I have 3 years of relevant experience in the field). They probably think that only asking brain teaser is relevant to find good quant researcher candidates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Number of ways a frog can go from ladder 0 to 100 with jumps of any possible positive size? Follow-up: how many of them have an odd number of steps?
I applied online. I interviewed at Five Rings (Princeton, NJ) in Mar 2020
Interview
I got interview on the phone. The process was about 40 minutes. The interviewer asks general questions about the resume and then go through the list of estimating questions such as what is the average weight of some newborn animals.
Very nice interview process, multiple rounds with tehcnical questions. The first round is a rapid fire questions where they ask you around 20 questions and you need to answer each within a minute or so. The later rounds are longer proper questions requring novel thoughts and computation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Statistical and computational questions, need to know calculas basics