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You have a deck of 52 cards, and you keep taking pairs of cards out of the deck. if a pair of cards are both red, then you win that pair; if a pair of cards are both black, then I win that pair; if a pair of cards has one red and one black, then it's discarded. If, after going through the whole deck, you have more pairs than I do, then you win $1, and if I have more pairs than you do, I win $1. What is the value of this game in the long run?
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Quantitative Analyst

Interviewed at Morgan Stanley

3.9
Nov 4, 2011

You have a deck of 52 cards, and you keep taking pairs of cards out of the deck. if a pair of cards are both red, then you win that pair; if a pair of cards are both black, then I win that pair; if a pair of cards has one red and one black, then it's discarded. If, after going through the whole deck, you have more pairs than I do, then you win $1, and if I have more pairs than you do, I win $1. What is the value of this game in the long run?

Suppose N students participate in a coin flip experiment, when they get heads they stop, when they get tails they keep going. All students will stop after the second trial no matter the results. Y is the binary indicator of whether they claim they cheated in the experiment. Estimate how many students cheat in this experiment.
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Quantitative Analyst

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Mar 23, 2016

Suppose N students participate in a coin flip experiment, when they get heads they stop, when they get tails they keep going. All students will stop after the second trial no matter the results. Y is the binary indicator of whether they claim they cheated in the experiment. Estimate how many students cheat in this experiment.

6. Coding Questions Asked to screenshare in the hangouts, and asked to open the eclipse, gave two problems to solve. 1. Check when multiplying a 6 digit number with 2 gives a number which has all the same numbers. E.g: 142857 x 2 = 285714
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QA Analyst

Interviewed at Thoughtworks

3.1
Feb 24, 2018

6. Coding Questions Asked to screenshare in the hangouts, and asked to open the eclipse, gave two problems to solve. 1. Check when multiplying a 6 digit number with 2 gives a number which has all the same numbers. E.g: 142857 x 2 = 285714

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