How to Answer: If you notice right now, the time on that clock reads 12:15. What is the angle between the minute and hour hands on that clock?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for a PRGX Global job interview.
2. If you notice right now, the time on that clock reads 12:15. What is the angle between the minute and hour hands on that clock?
How to Answer
In any interview with a Financial Engineer or Quantitative Analyst, your interviewer will be looking to pose one or a few different math related questions to show you have the quick skills to come up with a correct answer. For this question, talk your way through how you solved the problem so your interviewer gets a sense that you have the ability to solved basic, and even advanced, math problems.
Written by Ryan Brunner on July 23rd, 2020
Answer Example
"With each hour on the clock representing 30 degrees of the 360 degree circle, I'd use a starting point of 90 degrees for an angle for this answer. But then, I have to factor the hour hand now moving a quarter of the way between the 12 and 1 on the clock. with a quarter of that move being 7.5 degrees, the angle between the hands falls at 82.5 degrees."
Written by Ryan Brunner on July 23rd, 2020