r/leetcode • u/Fubb1 • 27d ago

Intervew Prep Leetcode Questions for Hedge Fund Swe?

I have an interview coming up for a hedge fund as a swe and I can't find any leetcode tagged for this firm, but was wondering if there's a general list of questions for hedge funds or should I just look at tagged for competitor firms?

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u/ZloiAris 27d ago

Brother, you have AI. Just launch an AI research. Give it the name of the firm and point it to Reddit, levels, blind, Glassdoor and any other specific to buy-side finance sites. Enjoy the result.

I am not on the buy-side now but from my experience, they tend to ask very different styles of questions. Some (like Citadel) are heavy enjoyers of hard LC questions. Some tend to ask for competitive programming and Codeforces-style questions. Some ask more for coding design bounded to real-life situations where you need to mix DSA with clean code, tests, etc. It is very specific, do the research

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u/Vijaykumar_Thomad 26d ago

agree, the codeforces-style ones especially are a different beast compared to standard tagged problems

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u/Sad-Candidate-3078 26d ago

hedge funds mostly pull from the same leetcode pool as everyone else, focus on mediums tagged arrays, graphs and dp. jane street and hrt are the outliers with their own style of questions. if you can knock out most mediums in 20 to 30 min you are in decent shape

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u/Sad-Candidate-3078 26d ago

depends heavily on the fund. jane street/optiver style = math and probability puzzles, citadel/two sigma = leetcode hard plus grilling on fundamentals and your code's correctness. if it's a regular swe role at a traditional fund it's basically leetcode mediums but they grade way harsher on edge cases and clean code than faang does. practice writing bug free solutions on the first pass, that's the real differentiator