Advice on Interview Books

[conan]

Could someone please suggest the best book for quant interviews? From the best selling books list, I see there are books by Joshi, Crack, Wilmott, and Zhou. If you only have time to read one, which one would best prepare you for quant interviews? Furthermore, it seems that none of the books contains enough questions on programming. Please also suggest a book for programming questions.

 

[euroazn]

For programming (specifically c++): http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~lyan/c++interviewquestions.pdf

 

[conan]

Thank you for the link. I will definitely read it for C++ questions. Do you have any suggestions regarding the books I mentioned in my first post?

 

[Andy Nguyen]

I don't think you should get one book since they are all complementary of one another and have little overlapping. I know many MFE students got all of them, so do myself. I heard good feedback for Mark Joshi book. Crack book is more for MBA type applicants and not much hard core quant type.
Books are the cheapest form of investment you can do to improve your chance of landing a job.

BOOKS FOR QUANT INTERVIEWS

• Quant Job Interview Questions And Answers by Mark Joshi
• Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance by Wilmott
• Heard on The Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews by Timothy Crack
• Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
• A Practical Guide To Quantitative Finance Interviews by Xinfeng Zhou
• Basic Black-Scholes: Option Pricing and Trading by Timothy Crack
• Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions by Frederick Mosteller
• Vault Guide to Advanced Finance & Quantitative Interviews

 

[conan]

Thanks Andy. That's exactly the answer I was looking for. I just wanted to hear from those of you who have read a few of the books to see if some books have overlapping material or have different target readers. I guess I should read Joshi's book and avoid Crack's book since it's more targeted for MBA students.

 

[msj]

Thanks for the plug. The second edition of
Quant Job Interview Questions and Answers

by Joshi Denson and Downes is now out. It has over 300 questions with answers.

www.amazon.com/Quant-Interview-Questions-Answers-Second/dp/0987122827/

 

[jeanpeyre]

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