What you bring apart from raw brainpower
Question
Besides being intelligent, what else would you bring to the team?
Short answer
Highlight qualities that make a clever person effective. Strong options are reliability and attention to detail, the ability to communicate with traders, practical programming skill, teamwork and persistence; back each with a brief example. Interviewers want evidence you will deliver usable work in a team, not only solve puzzles.
Adapted from Joshi, Denson & Downes, Quant Job Interview Questions and Answers, Q9.13, p.301; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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