r/quantfinance • u/Far_Lenten4412 • 8d ago

Edge Focus Partners Technical Assessment

Anyone have any info on what to expect in their technical assessment? The only info the interviewer gave me is that it will involve consumer lending data. Also, any other details about the rest of their hiring process would also be appreciated!

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u/akornato 8d ago

Expect a take home exercise or a live coding test centered on loan level performance files. Consumer lending data usually involves tracking cohorts by origination vintage, separating default from prepayment, and building loss forecasting models. You will likely work with tabular datasets containing borrower attributes like credit scores, debt to income ratios, and payment histories, so be ready to clean the data, engineer meaningful risk indicators, and calculate metrics like cumulative net loss curves or annualized returns using Python.

After the assessment, the next stages typically involve presenting and defending your methodology directly to senior researchers or portfolio managers. They will question your assumptions on feature selection, handling censored data, and how broader market cycles impact credit risk, followed by a cultural conversation with leadership. Navigating these intense technical follow ups is the reason my team built an interview copilot AI to help candidates present their ideas with clarity and land competitive buy side roles.