Quantitative finance careers

For STEM students, PhDs and early-career engineers targeting research, trading or development roles — and for applicants to MFE and MFin programmes.

What actually gets tested

Most candidates prepare from the wrong model. They grind brainteaser lists and arrive at a final round assuming the test is whether they can produce the answer. It is not. The test is how you behave in the ninety seconds after you realise you do not have one.

I have sat on the receiving end of these interviews and then spent a career doing the job they select for. The preparation is built around what the desk is actually screening:

Probability under adversarial questioning — not the problem, but the follow-up to your answer, and the follow-up to that
Stochastic calculus to the depth genuinely required — Itô, change of measure, martingale arguments; and the large volume of it you can safely ignore
Market-making and pricing games — quoting under uncertainty, adverse selection, updating on order flow
Mental arithmetic at speed — resented by every client for the first month, decisive in the second interview
Coding screens — C++ and Python, with the performance questions that separate a developer from a scripter
Thinking aloud — being wrong confidently, then correcting quickly. The single most common reason strong mathematicians fail final rounds.

Programmes

Quant Interview Intensive

Eight sessions over six weeks. For candidates with a live process or one starting within the quarter.

DiagnosticA written assessment against the standard of your target firms before any teaching begins.

Six technical sessionsProbability, stochastic calculus, market-making, mental arithmetic, coding.

Two full mock interviewsRun at genuine difficulty, recorded, with written feedback.

Between-session supportWritten answers to anything you hit in the meantime.

Fee

£6,500

Quant Career Programme

Sixteen sessions over four months. For candidates earlier in the process, or moving across from academia or software.

Everything in the IntensivePlus twice the technical contact time.

Firm selectionWhich desks actually suit how you think. Two of the five firms on a typical list are usually a poor fit.

Positioning and curriculum vitaeRewritten for a quant readership, which is not the readership a normal CV is written for.

Offer negotiationWhat is and is not movable, and how to ask without damaging the relationship.

Fee

£12,000

MFE / MFin Admissions

For applicants to Baruch, Carnegie Mellon, Princeton, Oxford MCF, Imperial and equivalents.

Programme selectionPlacement records read properly, rather than as marketed.

Quantitative preparationClosing the specific gaps these programmes screen for at interview.

Essays and interviewsI will not write a sentence for you. That is why it works.

Fee

£5,500

Half on signature, half at the midpoint. Quoted in pounds; payable in euros, pounds or dollars. Existing clients may book additional hours at £550. Where a programme needs it, GRE preparation is included. Further reading: what a quant interview is actually testing.

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