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I have a standard 52 card deck. One by one, I draw cards from the deck and place them face up in front of you (without putting them back). At any point, you may stop me and say a color. If the next two cards I draw both have that color, you win. Otherwise, you lose. What is the optimal strategy?
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Quantitative Research Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Oct 30, 2018

I have a standard 52 card deck. One by one, I draw cards from the deck and place them face up in front of you (without putting them back). At any point, you may stop me and say a color. If the next two cards I draw both have that color, you win. Otherwise, you lose. What is the optimal strategy?

Q: Suppose you want to calculate how long an escalator is. You have two times: the time it takes you to ascend the escalator while standing still, and the time it takes you to ascend the escalator while walking at a speed of x meters/second. Q: Some easy probability question on bounding the event of rain on a second day if it rained on the first. I'm sure there's someone else on here who gave a more detailed account. A follow-up required knowledge about union-bound if I recall correctly.
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Quantitative Research Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Nov 7, 2022

Q: Suppose you want to calculate how long an escalator is. You have two times: the time it takes you to ascend the escalator while standing still, and the time it takes you to ascend the escalator while walking at a speed of x meters/second. Q: Some easy probability question on bounding the event of rain on a second day if it rained on the first. I'm sure there's someone else on here who gave a more detailed account. A follow-up required knowledge about union-bound if I recall correctly.

Person A walks up an escalator at 2 steps/second. Person B walks up an escalator at 3 steps/second. Person B gets on the escalator 5 seconds after A and arrives at the top X seconds after A. (I forgot the exact value of X) If the escalator is moving at 1 step/second, how many steps are visible on the escalator at a single point in time?
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Dec 30, 2020

Person A walks up an escalator at 2 steps/second. Person B walks up an escalator at 3 steps/second. Person B gets on the escalator 5 seconds after A and arrives at the top X seconds after A. (I forgot the exact value of X) If the escalator is moving at 1 step/second, how many steps are visible on the escalator at a single point in time?

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