Trexquant Investment Quantitative Analyst interview: Hangman ML project

Trexquant Investment·Quantitative Analyst·Reported May 2024
Take-home ProjectTechnical ScreenMedium

I started with the Hangman project, which was also mentioned as one of the stages other people had gone through for this company. It was a take-home coding challenge focused on improving the model's guessing performance. Later, the interviewer asked me directly how I'd make it better.

After that, I discussed the project with an interviewer. The conversation was strongly focused on machine learning, and we went through my Hangman solution and specific ways to improve it. The questions felt less like generic interview conversation and more like an examination of my modeling choices, including references to deeper learning and reinforcement-style approaches.

The process felt fairly aligned with the work. Hangman was the centerpiece, and the conversation built on it by discussing ML techniques. I didn't receive an offer from that experience, but the direction of the questions still felt coherent rather than random.

Location: United States. Overall feedback: Neutral. Offer status: No offer.

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Interview at a glance

Company
Trexquant Investment
Role
Quantitative Analyst
Rounds
Take-home Project → Technical Screen
Difficulty
Medium
Date
Reported May 2024

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