Junior Quantitative Analyst Interview Questions

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Given one hundred cards with numbers 1-100 on each card and two baskets. Throw each of these cards with 50% of probability falling in the left basket and 50% to the right. What is the expected value of the minimum number in the left basket.
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Quantitative Summer Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Feb 4, 2020

Given one hundred cards with numbers 1-100 on each card and two baskets. Throw each of these cards with 50% of probability falling in the left basket and 50% to the right. What is the expected value of the minimum number in the left basket.

Two symmetric dice have both had two of their sides painted red, two painted black, one painted yellow, and the other painted white. When this pair of dice is rolled, what is the probability that both dice land with the same color face up?
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Quantitative Trader

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
May 2, 2022

Two symmetric dice have both had two of their sides painted red, two painted black, one painted yellow, and the other painted white. When this pair of dice is rolled, what is the probability that both dice land with the same color face up?

1, what's a virtual function. 2. How to find the median of a data stream? 3. What's distribution of a cumulative random variable satisfy? 4. How to generate normal random variable from uniform normal variable? 5. Can you use tuples as keys for Python dictionaries?
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Nomura

3.8
Jul 18, 2020

1, what's a virtual function. 2. How to find the median of a data stream? 3. What's distribution of a cumulative random variable satisfy? 4. How to generate normal random variable from uniform normal variable? 5. Can you use tuples as keys for Python dictionaries?

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