Assessments
Timed mock screens
Full-length sittings modelled on the online assessments quant candidates actually face. Each one keeps the real format - the timings, the section structure and the marking rules, including negative marking where the original uses it - and generates fresh questions on every attempt, so a score is earned rather than remembered.
Optiver-Style Trading Assessment
Optiver-style · 81 min · 168 questions · 6 sections
A full-length sitting modelled on Optiver's published screening battery - 80 in 8, NumberLogic, Beat the Odds, the new-for-2026 Likelihood List, Zap-N and Zap-Q. Negative marking on the timed sections, and numbers chosen so a shortcut beats long multiplication.
SIG-Style Problem-Solving Assessment
SIG-style · 20 min · 17 questions · 1 section
Modelled on Susquehanna's pre-resume Problem-Solving Assessment: 17 mixed probability and logic items drawn from a recycled bank where only the numbers change between candidates. This sitting uses the ~20-minute internship clock; full-time candidates get the same bank at 60 minutes.
Citadel-Style Dual Online Assessment
Citadel-style · 42 min · 65 questions · 2 sections
Modelled on the two screens Citadel candidates report: a general cognitive test of 50 logic, arithmetic and comprehension items at fourteen seconds each, then a 15-item probability OA covering combinatorics, Bayes, Markov chains and hypothesis testing.
DRW-Style Quantitative Challenge
DRW-style · 45 min · 6 questions · 1 section
Modelled on DRW's take-home quantitative challenge for trading analysts: six substantial questions in 45 minutes spanning probability, statistics, Markov chains, regression and game theory. No negative marking - the difficulty is in the working, not the clock.
Quant Research Screen
Citadel / Two Sigma-style · 40 min · 26 questions · 2 sections
Modelled on the long-form research online assessments: distribution theory, stochastic processes, and the inference traps that kill a live strategy.
Quant Developer Online Assessment
Hudson River Trading-style · 115 min · 14 questions · 2 sections
Modelled on the HackerRank and CodeSignal screens that gate low-latency engineering roles: four problems you implement and submit, auto-graded against hidden tests, with performance constraints that fail a correct-but-slow solution.
Risk Analyst Screen
Bank / clearinghouse-style · 25 min · 18 questions · 1 section
Modelled on sell-side and clearing risk screens: VaR and Expected Shortfall, correlation breakdown, fat tails, and the Greeks under stress.
Economic Consulting Analyst Screen
Cornerstone / Analysis Group-style · 35 min · 22 questions · 1 section
There is no standard screen for this field yet - this is built from what analyst work actually requires: causal identification, regression diagnostics, and competition analysis defensible under cross-examination.
Actuarial Analyst Screen
SOA / CAS-style · 30 min · 20 questions · 1 section
Modelled on entry-level actuarial screening: life contingencies, compounding survival, annuity valuation, loss development and ruin theory.
Outcry is not affiliated with any firm named on this page. These sittings reproduce publicly reported assessment formats; the questions are generated fresh each attempt and are not any firm’s own material.