I just had a quant interview where they asked me to derive a formula on a whiteboard that I haven't seen since my sophomore year of college. I’m all for testing technical competency, but these gotcha math riddles are completely unrelated to the actual day-to-day job. I fumbled the second half of the derivation and the interviewer just stared at me in silence. How do you get through these interviews?

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I do my best and if it's something I haven't seen in a long time, I'll just say that. I'm not going to be belittled and made to play games with technical information that nobody uses just for a job interview. It's a big indicator of how they treat their employees.

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Take it into a real-life scenario and walk through that. I can’t stand when interviews are more like a pop quiz than a discussion. It doesn’t help show you can do the job, just that you could ace a test.

That’s rough. I think in this day and age, understanding concepts is a lot more important than remembering specific numbers.

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