Describe a program to determine whether or not an integer is prime.
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What is the standard deviation of 26 unknown cards from a playing deck?
Make a market on the number of kangaroos in Australia.
The most unexpected part of the interview was that it involved a mock trading game using playing cards
Lowest multiple of 16 that only contains 1s and 0s...I couldn't come up with an efficient solution besides multiplying by stuff until I ended up with 10000 (took too long, interviewer asked me to move on).
If you wrote out 1 to 100 how many times would you write the number 9?
Nothing particularly hard
The math test, although on paper, tests mental math, and so no scratch work is allowed. Also, make sure you can estimate the solution to a relatively difficult arithmetic question fairly well.
Two brain teasers at the end of the interview
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