Leland+ Content Library

C++ Preparation Roadmap for Quant Development Interviews

A focused eight-week roadmap for quant development candidates covering lifetime, ownership, STL containers, concurrency, testing, debugging, profiling, and benchmarking. Includes practical prompts and evidence-based answer checks.

Portfolio Construction and Risk Management Interview Guide

Build interview-ready intuition for portfolio objectives, covariance, diversification, optimization, constraints, turnover, and stress testing. Includes calculation drills, diagnosis prompts, answer checks, and a final readiness list.

Execution, Market Microstructure, and Transaction Costs Primer

Learn how order books, spreads, liquidity, execution benchmarks, implementation shortfall, and opportunity cost connect in real trading decisions. Includes synthetic examples and eight interview-style practice prompts.

Quant Master's Admissions Interview Workbook

Prepare a clear admissions story, verify program fit, explain technical work honestly, review implied prerequisites, and practice eight common interview prompts. Built for MFE and related quantitative master's applicants.

Options and Derivatives Interview Primer

Review option payoffs, put-call parity, Greeks, volatility, hedging, and common modeling limits in a compact interview guide. Eight worked practice prompts help candidates explain both calculations and assumptions.

Fixed Income, Rates, and Credit Interview Primer

Prepare for fixed-income interview questions with concise explanations of bond pricing, yield curves, duration, convexity, credit spreads, carry, and hedging. Includes eight practice problems with answer checks and clear assumptions.

Market Making Games and Simulation Workbook

Practice quoting, inventory management, adverse selection, and decision making under pressure through short market making games. Includes worked examples, drills, and a clear self review checklist for quant trading candidates.

Migration Playbook: Move Your Supabase Backend with an AI Coding Agent

A practical, step-by-step guide for moving a Supabase-backed application to Google Cloud without turning the project into a full rewrite. Learn how to scope the migration, use an AI coding agent responsibly, preserve a rollback path, and validate the changes that matter most: data isolation, database integrity, and production readiness. Includes a high-level overview and companion scripts covering architecture decisions, cloud setup, database migration, authentication, storage, testing, and cutover.

Local data vault: redact sensitive data before it reaches the cloud

Many of us would like to use frontier AI models on sensitive documents without sending private identifiers to the cloud. This hands-on toolkit combines local redaction, encrypted reversible storage, and agent-level access controls so you can work with financial, medical, legal, or HR documents more carefully to protect your identity and personal information.

AI agent onboarding: getting hands-on with Claude Code and Codex

Learn a practical workflow for using AI coding agents on real work. This guide walks learners through environment setup, developing safe review habits, Git basics, and a first hands-on project using Claude Code or Codex. Get up and running with 6 learning tracks that build on each other to make the progression from basic workflows to more advanced automations and development feel natural.

Career Pivot Asset Map

Most career pivoters waste months applying for roles they’re already qualified for, just because they can’t articulate the connection between what they’ve done and what they want to do next. This worksheet maps the credibility, skills, and knowledge you’ve already built, shows you exactly how they transfer to your target role, and identifies the one real gap worth closing, so you stop spinning and start applying with confidence. Built from 6,900+ minutes of real coaching conversations. Created by Andrew Cause, #5 Career Expert on Leland.

Stop a Generic LOR Before It's Written: 3 Things to Do Now [8/4/2026] (Recording)

A strong candidate with a weak, generic letter is a common and preventable mistake. Learn exactly what to send your recommenders so their letter reinforces your narrative instead of undercutting it.

CASPer and AAMC PREview Guide

This resource provides a comprehensive overview of the CASPer and AAMC PREview exams, two of the most widely used situational judgment tests in health professions admissions. It covers the format, timing, and core competencies each exam assesses, along with sample scenarios and answer strategies, the STAR method for structuring responses, and practical strategies for managing pressure on test day. The guide closes with guidance on preparing through practice with an experienced admissions professional.

Market Sizing Master Class

After this session, you will know how to structure a market sizing answer that holds up under follow-up questions, not just one that lands a reasonable number. We will cover how to choose the right estimation approach for a given prompt, how to segment a market in a way that signals business intuition, and how to recover cleanly when an interviewer pushes back on your assumptions.

STAR Story Builder

You have great experience. The problem is that every time a hiring manager asks “tell me about a time when...” your brain goes blank or you ramble. This one-page worksheet walks you through the STAR framework and the X-Y-Z formula so you leave with a polished, measurable story ready for any behavioral question they can throw at you, plus a bank of five story categories you can pull from in any interview. Built from 6,900+ minutes of real coaching conversations. Created by Andrew Cause, #5 Career Expert on Leland.

Discounted Cashflow Modelling guide

Master DCF valuation with a guide built for real-world finance roles. This concise, practical resource will strengthen your technical foundations and refine your understand of the logic behind each calculation, so you can explain valuation concepts confidently in interviews.

Ace Schwarzman Scholars essays: A comprehensive guide for 2027 intake

Schwarzman Scholars admits roughly 3% of applicants for less than 150 seats a year. At that acceptance rate, almost every finalist has strong grades, strong recommendations, and a strong resume, so the resume stops being the differentiator. What actually separates the applicants who get an interview from the ones who don't is not what they've done. It's whether their essays make a reviewer understand, in the space of a few minutes, exactly who this person is and why they belong in that room in Beijing. That is a different skill than "writing well." It is closer to strategic self-editing: deciding which one story to tell, what it proves about you, and how to say it so specifically that no one else could have written the same sentence. This guide breaks both required essays down into a repeatable process, shows you the failure patterns I see most often as a coach, and gives you a self-audit framework you can run on your own draft before you submit.

New Feature Walkthrough: Recommend Live Programs

Learn how to recommend Live Programs to your clients to receive 30% commission.

LSAT - How to Review Missed Logical Reasoning Questions Easy Guide

Easy, laminable guide to help walk you through missed logical reasoning questions. Check out my LSAT 101 video for a more comprehensive look at eliminating missed answer choices!

Clean up Your Consulting Resume in 30 mins

Your resume is often your first opportunity to make an impression, and in consulting, even small changes can make a meaningful difference. This session is for candidates who want to strengthen their consulting resume and improve their chances of landing interviews. You’ll learn how to communicate impact more effectively, highlight the experiences firms care about most, and eliminate the common mistakes that weaken otherwise strong resumes.