Why I Built Quantercise

For my first two years at NYU, I was obsessed with landing a quant trading internship.

At first it was just about the prestige, but the more I dug into the problems, I found myself curious about the variety of questions that could possibly come up in an interview and all the different ways to approach them.

So I built a simple MERN stack flashcard app so that I could quiz myself on questions while commuting, waiting in line, or whenever I had five minutes. A couple of my friends and classmates also were looking for a way to prepare for interviews, so I decided to share it with them.

What I realized along the way is that good quant prep resources are either expensive or scattered around the internet. The best questions are behind paywalls that charge hundreds a month.

So I turned what I built into something any student grinding for quant roles can actually use. Quantercise is built for people with the grit to affordably practice the skills that will help them land a quant role. Every problem in this platform has been asked to hundreds of people at top quant companies and hedge funds.

— Ani Potts