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Online exam consisted of 4 very basic probability/expected value questions. Selecting prime numbers and probabilities of their sum having a certain value, coin tossing games, optimal strategy in a black jack style coin problem. Phone interview consisted of a brain teaser where a system of linear equations were expected to form and solve, and a deck of card problems, and a game where you exhaust a deck of cards and get +1 or -1 dollars depending on the outcome and given rules, and you have to determine the expected p&l in this game.
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4★
Aug 17, 2016

Online exam consisted of 4 very basic probability/expected value questions. Selecting prime numbers and probabilities of their sum having a certain value, coin tossing games, optimal strategy in a black jack style coin problem. Phone interview consisted of a brain teaser where a system of linear equations were expected to form and solve, and a deck of card problems, and a game where you exhaust a deck of cards and get +1 or -1 dollars depending on the outcome and given rules, and you have to determine the expected p&l in this game.

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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