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I applied through university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Spark Investment Management (New York, NY) in Jul 2025
Interview
Lots of questions on probability specifically on conditional variance and expectations as well as stats. you have to remmeber a lot of distrubutions eg normal posision binomial and also some time series
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How many times would you flip a coin to get 3 heads in a row
I applied through university. I interviewed at Spark Investment Management (Cambridge, MA)
Interview
On-campus interview, 30-minute conversation. I assume there were second round interviews that would have taken place on-site, but nobody I know from school got a second round interview. Lindsay is the interviewer and was very nice (Chicago Blackhawks fan, for reference).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is one moment you felt like you were very perceptive that allowed you to solve a problem?