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Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews | 
| Author: Timothy Falcon Crack
Publisher: Timothy Crack
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 25277
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0970055269
Dewey Decimal Number: 650
EAN: 9780970055262
Publication Date: February 12, 2008
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Product Description
The 11th edition contains 170 quantitative questions collected from actual job interviews in investment banking, investment management, and options trading. The interviewers use the same questions year-after-year and here they are---with solutions! These questions come from all types of interviews (corporate finance, sales and trading, quant research, etc), but they are especially likely in quantitative capital markets job interviews. The questions come from all levels of interviews (undergrad, MBA, PhD), but they are especially likely if you have, or almost have, an MS or MBA. The latest edition includes 125 non-quantitative actual interview questions, and a new section on interview technique---based partly on Dr. Crack's experiences interviewing candidates for the world's largest institutional asset manager. Dr. Crack has a PhD from MIT. He has won many teaching awards and has publications in the top academic, practitioner, and teaching journals in finance. He has degrees in Mathematics/Statistics, Finance, and Financial Economics and a diploma in Accounting/Finance. Dr. Crack taught at the university level for 20 years including four years as a front line teaching assistant for MBA students at MIT. He recently headed a quantitative active equity research team at the world's largest institutional money manager.
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 Really, really useful if you're in the field October 17, 2000
62 out of 73 found this review helpful
I'm a financial engineering student at an Ivy League institution. Just got the book from Amazon. Awesome book, so far the best help in preparing for technical aspect of the ib (quantitative positions) interviews that I have encountered. I thought it would be sort of a black and white xerox copy - instead it turned out to be really well published. The book is rather weighty (>300p), contains a plethora of questions with detailed explanations, 0 filler. The guy is very good about cultivating the attitude of, "It's the thinking process and not the number in the answer." Overall, I would definitely recommed this. Given the amount of general info you can garner off free advice sites - vault/wetfeet, this may as well be the number one book on your preparation list.
THIS E-book IS UNPRINTABLE May 5, 2004
53 out of 59 found this review helpful
Don't purchase the e-book if you need to print out this book. AMAZON does not explicitly tell you that it is unprintable. It will be a nightmare to even communicate with the "refund and returns" department.They will repeatedly evade your questions and in the end will not refund you- very unethical. Get the paper version of this GREAT book otherwise AMAZON will rip you off. Why is it that Amazon has no telephone number when it comes to refunds and returns? A little shady...
Do NOT interview for any analytic job before reading this! November 22, 2003
40 out of 45 found this review helpful
This book is specifically targeted at those applying for highly-quantitative jobs on Wall Street, and any job seeker in that area would be nuts not to take advantage of the inside information Professor Crack reveals.The reason I am writing this review, though, is that I believe the sample interview questions and advice are invaluable to anyone interviewing for any job that involves a lot of analysis. I am not in the finance field, but rather in technology consulting. Having practiced with Heard on the Street, I found the "tough" interview questions I encountered to be downright easy, and I breezed through several rounds of interviews, landing the job I wanted at a major computer company best known by its three-letter acronym. If you're headed to Wall Street, reading this book is a no-brainer. If you're headed anywhere else that involves numbers, logic or analysis of a non-financial nature, you'll still be glad you read it.
 A Waste of Money January 14, 2005
15 out of 38 found this review helpful
This book was terrible - completely amateurish. You could find the same (and better) information freely available on the internet. In the chapter on programming he has a few trivial questions and then states that he doesn't know anything about programming so there will be no explanations for these problems. I'm paying for this? The book is also sprinkled with annoying annecdotes that have little to with the topic of the book. Stay away!
Really great prep for Finance interviews May 17, 2004
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
6 stars, because it's helpful too. A really fun read, for me it was like a book of crosswords. This book is best suited for MBA's interviewing for top jobs, or undergrads interested in seeing what's expected of them after they get an MBA.
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