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Squarepoint Capital interview questions

26 questions researched across 1 Squarepoint Capital seat in Trading. Below are 12 of them.

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  • Quantitative TraderTrading · graduate · 30 min

12 Squarepoint Capital interview questions

  1. What's the expected value of the sum of two twelve-sided dice?

  2. Now choose. Either roll one twelve-sided die and double it, or roll two and add them. You're paid the result if it's thirteen or more, otherwise nothing. Which do you take?

  3. I will sell you a bet on the sum of two dice at 8. Do you buy or sell, and at what size?

  4. You draw from a bag with 3 red and 5 blue. Two draws, no replacement. Probability both red?

  5. Multiply 37 by 43 out loud, and tell me how you did it.

  6. In your own words, what's the difference between the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem, and why does a trader care about each?

  7. You flip a fair coin ten thousand times. Give me a range that the number of heads lands in about ninety-five percent of the time.

  8. A strategy wins on sixty percent of days, independently. What's the probability it has at least four winning days in a five-day week?

  9. You have a hundred dollars and can bet repeatedly at even money on a coin that comes up your way fifty-five percent of the time. How much of your bankroll do you bet each time, and why not all of it?

  10. I roll two dice. What is the probability the sum is at least ten? Talk me through it.

  11. A coin is flipped until the first head. What is the expected number of flips?

  12. Tell us about a decision you made with incomplete information.

What a strong answer does

The questions above fall into 2 kinds. What a strong answer does differs by kind, not by question.

Technical11 of 12 above
State the intuition first; walk through the mechanics; make assumptions explicit; test a risk or edge case; connect the answer to the role.
Behavioral1 of 12 above
Lead with the claim and context; isolate your personal action and decision; explain the trade-off; quantify the result; finish with what you learned and changed.

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The rest of the bank — 26 in total — is asked by the interviewer during practice, so you meet them the way you would on the day rather than reading them first.

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How these questions were researched

Every question carries a provenance grade. Some were reported by candidates who sat the round, some come from the firm’s own published guidance or a source that trains for it, and the rest are written to match how this firm asks. Each seat is studied on its own — the round it actually runs, the order it runs it in, and what it is listening for. A Squarepoint Capital round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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