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1st question they asked me to find the expected value of 2 12-sided die. 2nd question they asked me which would I rather do, roll one 12-sided die and double the number or roll 2 12 sided die and add them together. If the number is <13, then your payoff is 0, and if It's over 13 your payoff is whatever number you get.
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Quantitative Analysis + Trading

Interviewed at Citi

3.6★
Mar 3, 2014

1st question they asked me to find the expected value of 2 12-sided die. 2nd question they asked me which would I rather do, roll one 12-sided die and double the number or roll 2 12 sided die and add them together. If the number is <13, then your payoff is 0, and if It's over 13 your payoff is whatever number you get.

-brainteasers: you have a 6l bottle and a 4l bottle, how do you do to get 5l? -probability: in a tennis match, you and your opponent are tied with 30 points, you have a probability 0.6 of making a point and the opponent 0.4, what is your probability of winning? And how much it'll change if we make the probabilities 0.9/0.1? -mental math: 2/17 with 4 decimal digits, multiplication of 3 digits numbers
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Quantitative Trading

Interviewed at Optiver

3.7★
Nov 30, 2018

-brainteasers: you have a 6l bottle and a 4l bottle, how do you do to get 5l? -probability: in a tennis match, you and your opponent are tied with 30 points, you have a probability 0.6 of making a point and the opponent 0.4, what is your probability of winning? And how much it'll change if we make the probabilities 0.9/0.1? -mental math: 2/17 with 4 decimal digits, multiplication of 3 digits numbers

first question - let's play a game where you have ten chips, and you want to split them up into stacks such that you want to maximize your score, which is the product of the size of each stack. what's the best you can do with 10? what about 100 chips? what about N chips arbitrarily large?
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Quantitative Trading Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4★
Feb 13, 2024

first question - let's play a game where you have ten chips, and you want to split them up into stacks such that you want to maximize your score, which is the product of the size of each stack. what's the best you can do with 10? what about 100 chips? what about N chips arbitrarily large?

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