Headlands Technologies
Statistical research and low-level engineering in quantitative trading
Source confidence: Official + candidate reports · Last reviewed: 8 Sept 2026. Exact process varies by role, office, and year.
Headlands Technologies describes distinct quantitative-research and core-development skill profiles. Research work emphasizes programming, statistics, trading intuition, and understanding market data, while core development emphasizes low-level software engineering, networking, and system architecture. Recent candidate reports broadly align with those role-specific profiles and provide additional examples of statistics, machine learning, C++, and coding questions, although Headlands does not publish a fixed interview sequence.
Interview Rounds
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Round 1:Role application and track choice
Headlands posts research and development roles with materially different requirements: statistics and machine learning on noisy data for research, and C++, networking, and system architecture for development. The firm does not publish one interview sequence.
Round 2:Online assessment (reported)
A research candidate reported an assessment of 10 statistics multi-select questions followed by coding, with the coding at easy-to-medium algorithmic difficulty. A software candidate reported an online assessment before any live round. Length and content vary by role and cycle.
Round 3:Technical phone screen (reported)
A recent software candidate reported a phone screen covering Python versus C++ questions and coding. A very recent research candidate described heavy statistics, machine learning, and C++ content.
Round 4:Later team discussions (reported)
Candidate reports describe further technical and experience discussions, with no stable public round count or duration.
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