Quant Job Interview Questions And Answers

This is the first edition. The second edition is now available.

Designed to get you a job in quantitative finance, this book contains over 225 interview questions taken from actual interviews in the City and Wall Street. Each question comes with a full detailed solution, discussion of what the interviewer is seeking and possible follow-up questions. Topics covered include option pricing, probability, mathematics, numerical algorithms and C++, as well as a discussion of the interview process and the non-technical interview. Mark Joshi wrote the popular introductory textbooks "the Concepts and Practice of Mathematical Finance" and "C++ Design Patterns and Derivatives Pricing." He also worked as a senior quant in industry for many years and has plenty of interview experience from both sides of the desk.

Mark S. Joshi is a Professor in the Centre for Actuarial Studies at the University of Melbourne. He has wide experience of teaching courses in financial mathematics and has previously held posts at the University of Cambridge and at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Risk Management. In February 2004 he was appointed Head of Quantitative Research Centre (QUARC) at RBS. He is the author of six books and numerous papers on both financial and pure mathematics, and has been an invited speaker at many international conferences.