D. E. Shaw

D. E. Shaw India Campus Online Test

D. E. Shaw runs no online assessment for its US or UK quant roles - that process is interviews from the start. This sitting models the India campus test instead: 138 marks over 95 minutes on HackerRank, four sections, no going back, and a third of a question's marks lost for a wrong multiple-choice answer.

Format

• 4 sections · 28 items · about 95 minutes
• Negative marking on Aptitude, Technical - a skip costs nothing there.
• No going back. Answer or skip, and the next item loads.
• Every sitting is generated fresh - a retake is a new paper.

Sections

• Aptitude - 14 items, 28 minutes, 1 mark lost per wrong answer. 14 questions in 28 minutes. Quantitative reasoning, logical reasoning and data interpretation. A wrong answer costs 1 of the 3 marks. No going back, and unused time does not carry into the next section.
• Technical - 12 items, 17 minutes, 1 mark lost per wrong answer. 12 questions in 17 minutes, so about 85 seconds each. Operating systems, databases, networks, complexity and data structures. A wrong answer costs 1 of the 3 marks.
• Coding problem 1 - 1 items, 20 minutes, no negative marking. One problem, 20 minutes, 25 marks. Write JavaScript and run it against the hidden tests. No negative marking here.
• Coding problem 2 - 1 items, 30 minutes, no negative marking. One problem, 30 minutes, 35 marks. Harder than the first, and the extra ten minutes are the only reason it fits.

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