Do quant interviews still test C++?

[Zhirun]

I notice that, the several classical quant interview books have been published many years.
Do the quant interviews at present still test C++?

 

[pingu]

I notice that, the several classical quant interview books have been published many years.
Do the quant interviews at present still test C++?

Not as often but it still happens.

 

[Zhirun]

Not as often but it still happens.

I see. So now, how do quant interviews test programming?

 

[pingu]

I see. So now, how do quant interviews test programming?

Same way as before. I don't think that has changed

 

[Daniel Duffy]

C++ is probably the best language to test against. Testing VBA, Matlab or Python would be _less_ insightful.
What an interviewer wants to know if you can design code and implement it in a structured way.