Basic binomial distribution probability question and expected value. The expected value was impossible to compute mentally so they wanted me to use the normal approximation.
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Coin flip question, min times of flip to get 3 heads/3tails. Max times of flip to get 3 heads/tails. Average times of flip to get 3heads/tails.
Conditional probability using Bayes' rule
Most of the interviews were just Markov chains, probability/EV, a couple of popular brainteasers. The final round data interview basically just tested your intuition for a dataset and talked through how you would analyze it to make some predictions/recommendations.
prob, stat
stat, prob
Why do you want to work in finance?
Binary/Trinomial tree option pricing, probability problems(poker game, dice game), estimation of exponentials and errors in the approximation formula.
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