AkunaCapital 2026 Quantitative Research Summer Internship Online Test
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After applying online, I quickly received the online assessment (OA) link, valid for one month. The OA consisted of three coding questions, with a time limit of 120 minutes. The difficulty was roughly
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After applying online, I quickly received the online assessment (OA) link, valid for one month. The OA consisted of three coding questions, with a time limit of 120 minutes. The difficulty was roughly equivalent to LeetCode's easy-medium level. The first question was a minimum swap problem: find the minimum number of swaps required to sort an array. The second question was an array manipulation problem: sum the differences between each element and its leftmost and next-to-left elements. The third question was a relatively basic dynamic programming problem: find the maximum sum of subsequences in an array, with the constraint that you cannot skip two or more consecutive numbers. Please give me some points!
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Solve similar problems on LeetCode under timed conditions (25-35 minutes per medium difficulty). The goal is pattern recognition: recognize the underlying technique (sliding window, two-pointer, BFS, memoized recursion, etc.) within 60-90 seconds of reading. Strong candidates verbalize their hypothesis out loud before coding, then iterate based on feedback. Weak candidates dive into implementation immediately, lose time on the wrong approach, and run out of time for follow-ups.
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Apply the standard interview round template: clarify requirements (2-3 minutes), state your approach out loud and confirm direction with the interviewer (3-5 minutes), code with narration (15-25 minutes), test with concrete examples including edge cases (5 minutes), discuss optimization or trade-offs if time permits (5 minutes). This template is universally accepted across FAANG and adjacent companies; deviating from it produces weaker interviewer feedback signal.
The single most predictive failure mode in Akuna Capital reports tagged "no hire": not asking clarifying questions. Interviewers are explicitly trained to weight this. Strong candidates ask 3-5 clarifying questions even on problems that look obvious; weak candidates dive into code immediately. The clarifying-question check is often the first signal recorded in the interviewer's written notes.