Five Rings

Five Rings Quant Trading Screen

The proctored HackerRank screen Five Rings puts in front of Quant Trading candidates before anyone interviews them: 17 typed items in 17 minutes, written so that exact arithmetic runs out of clock. Picking the right approximation is the test.

Format

• 1 section · 17 items · about 17 minutes
• No negative marking - answer everything.
• No going back. Answer or skip, and the next item loads.
• Every sitting is generated fresh - a retake is a new paper.

Sections

• Quant Trading screen - 17 items, 17 minutes, no negative marking. 17 typed items in 17 minutes. Normal tails, Stirling, Fermi decomposition, 1/e, linearisation - estimation under a clock, not exact arithmetic.

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