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The technical interview consisted of a variety of questions on pricing, Fixed Income, numerical analysis. One question was: You are at the horse racetrack. Four horses are racing. Betting on any horse costs $100. Betting on the first three horses pays off $400. The fourth horse pays off $399. If you can both take and "write" bets, what is your strategy for riskless profit?
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Retirement and Hybrid Quantitative Analyst

Interviewed at Deutsche Bank

3.8
Dec 4, 2013

The technical interview consisted of a variety of questions on pricing, Fixed Income, numerical analysis. One question was: You are at the horse racetrack. Four horses are racing. Betting on any horse costs $100. Betting on the first three horses pays off $400. The fourth horse pays off $399. If you can both take and "write" bets, what is your strategy for riskless profit?

-Give a 45-minute academic-style talk on your research -Describe an efficient algorithms for some problems -Derive the formula for least squares regression and its assumptions -Find a Nash equilibrium for a game involving probability -Write pseudocode for a dynamic programing algorithm for a trading-based problem

Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Radix Trading

4.3
Dec 24, 2022

-Give a 45-minute academic-style talk on your research -Describe an efficient algorithms for some problems -Derive the formula for least squares regression and its assumptions -Find a Nash equilibrium for a game involving probability -Write pseudocode for a dynamic programing algorithm for a trading-based problem

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