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Updated Apr 17, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Research at D. E. Shaw
Posted Jul 29, 2010
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2009 (took 1+ week)
I had an screening interview with for a quantitative position. It was about twenty minutes, half of it was HR and half of it was an algorithm question. I got into an interesting argument with the interviewer in which I was convinced that the answer I came up with not the best solution to the problem and and in which the interviewer was convinced it was.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Financial Analyst- Modeling at D. E. Shaw
Posted May 31, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in Hyderabad (India) (took 1+ week)
One HR round, one technical, one case study to solve, discussion of case study and finally HR round oncampus.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Presentation.
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Generalist at D. E. Shaw
Posted May 21, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 in New York, NY (took a day)
got an email from school visit to the firm for a phone interview, had a good conversation for the phone interview and was flown in for a day of 1-1 interviews. liked the people and culture, also the opportunity presented by the position
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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FinOp Intern at D. E. Shaw
Posted Mar 22, 2010
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2.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)
Applied online and got a phone interview about three weeks later. My interviewer was a member of the FinOp division. she made it clear that they were only interested in people with accounting experiences. since I'm an econ major, i was confused why they would even spend the time interviewing me. interview questions were completely behavioral ones such as "go through your resume", "why d.e.shaw" etc.
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Software Developer at D. E. Shaw
Posted Mar 13, 2010 — 3 of 3 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)
Got 1st round interview at school. The interviewer is very nice and start by a short introduction about DE Shaw and what he does there. Then he asked a simple coding + algorithmic question: implementing a merge iterator in C++. When I finished the coding, he asked a few question about the complexity of the algorithm, how to improve it (using priority queue). Got invitation for the on-site interview in that evening. Before going, i need to submit a sample code (you can choose any code you wrote, ~300 lines) for them to review.
Went to NY for the second round (the hotel and restaurant was really nice). Got 3 technical interviews in the morning which went quite well. Then they decide to schedule another technical interview with a senior VP in the afternoon. He also asked me a few technical questions which are very interesting. E.g,
- given a method foo(int a[4]). Write code to call foo with a = [0,0,0,0], [0,0,0,1],[0,0,0,2],[0,0,1,0],....,[2,2,2,2].
- Given 2 classes of shapes (Rectangle, Circle) that inherits Shape and 2 classes of printers (BW, Color), that inherits Printer. Also given 4 methods:
--- PrintRecBW(Rectangle s,BW p)
--- PrintRecCol(Rectangle s,Col p)
--- PrintCirBW(Circle s,BW p)
--- PrintCirCol(Circle s,Col p)
write a method to Print(Shape s, Printer p) to print out (s,p) using 4 methods above WITHOUT using "if". You are allowed to implement addition methods in given classes.
I also did pretty well in this one. Finally, they schedule an interview with the manager of the team. He asked me a few general questions about my research and my working experience. Then he asked a few technical question which were very obscure, there are no right or wrong answers, e.g
--- Do we need class Integer in Java? Why?
I thought I did ok in this interview (except the Integer question).
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Operations at D. E. Shaw
Posted Jan 30, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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2.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)
only brainteaser asked was what is the expected value of a dice roll? Answer is 3.5.
otherwise pretty standard walk me through your resume type questions and some brief questions about the firm's culture. Good to read up on that if you can, they are very proud of how chilled out they are.
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Quantitative Analyst at D. E. Shaw
Posted Feb 1, 2010
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 (took 4+ weeks)
All technical questions. Asked questions ranging from simple combinatorial problems to difficult probability / random variables problems.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Quant at D. E. Shaw
Posted Dec 9, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2008 (took a day)
it was actually my first phone interview EVER, so I was quite worried. the guy asked me three questions:
first something easy on options. I didn't answer since had zero experience at that time.
second was something easy on probability, involving Bayesian formula. I was too freaked at the time because of the first question. got a bit confused and didn't solve all of the parts (after I put down the phone, it was a 5 minute question, actually)
third question was "how to make a fair coin out of a biased one". that's a very famous question which unfortunately I didn't know at that time. I tried coming up with something but with a questionable success. the guy didn't give me any hints at all, and so the interviewed was finished.
that was a quick and obvious rejection, no questions asked.
the interesting information is that one year later they don't even give me an opportunity to interview again -- now I'm in the system, and they rejected me immediately. the moral is -- if you're really interested in them, be sure you are ready before you interview. one lousy bad morning, and you get "stupid" on your tab.
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Member Information Technology at D. E. Shaw
Posted Nov 1, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2007 (took a day)
The interviewers were really respectful, and made me feel comfortable the moment I entered the interview room. Mostly the questions were asked from Areas of interest Operating system, OOps , DBMS etc. Almost answered all their questions correctly. Then a few questions regarding my Final year project. Later they described their experience at Shaw.
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Research at D. E. Shaw
Posted Aug 14, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2007 (took a day)
emailed info, emailed about record, emailed resume, emailed about interview, questions via email, travel planning, airline, etc, visit to company, interviewed by staff 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, questions asked, discussion of background, discussion of expectations, discussion of education, discussion of type of work and different kinds of positions
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