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We are playing a game where we start at 0 and flip a coin until someone wins. Every heads that is flipped adds +1 to the number and every tails add -1. If the number reaches -10 I (the interviewer) wins and if it reaches 20 then you win. What is the probability I will win? I am thinking of a 10 digit number. The first digit is the number of 0s in the number, the 2nd is the number of 1s etc...What is the number?
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Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Dec 9, 2012

We are playing a game where we start at 0 and flip a coin until someone wins. Every heads that is flipped adds +1 to the number and every tails add -1. If the number reaches -10 I (the interviewer) wins and if it reaches 20 then you win. What is the probability I will win? I am thinking of a 10 digit number. The first digit is the number of 0s in the number, the 2nd is the number of 1s etc...What is the number?

How long would a tunnel from NYC to San Fran. would be if you dig it through the earth as short as possible? If you traveled directly on the surface? What is you confidence bound (length +/-)? You are waiting for a bus which it takes a round trip of 10 minutes to complete (starts again when it completes one tour). What is your expected waiting time if you arrive at a random time? (uniform from 0 to 10, so 5min). Then, an extension: There is an ice cream shop somewhere on the bus route. The bus driver flips a fair coin every time it passes by it and f "H", spends 10 minutes to eat ice cream and then continue the tour. What is your expected waiting time now? What is the coin is biased?
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Quantitative Trader

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Mar 3, 2013

How long would a tunnel from NYC to San Fran. would be if you dig it through the earth as short as possible? If you traveled directly on the surface? What is you confidence bound (length +/-)? You are waiting for a bus which it takes a round trip of 10 minutes to complete (starts again when it completes one tour). What is your expected waiting time if you arrive at a random time? (uniform from 0 to 10, so 5min). Then, an extension: There is an ice cream shop somewhere on the bus route. The bus driver flips a fair coin every time it passes by it and f "H", spends 10 minutes to eat ice cream and then continue the tour. What is your expected waiting time now? What is the coin is biased?

I have a 12 sided die and you have a 20 sided die. We each get two rolls and we can each chose to stop rolling on either one of the rolls, taking the number on that roll. Whoever has the higher number wins, with the tie going to the person with the 12 sided die. What is the probability that the person with the 20 sided die wins this game?
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Summer Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Feb 16, 2014

I have a 12 sided die and you have a 20 sided die. We each get two rolls and we can each chose to stop rolling on either one of the rolls, taking the number on that roll. Whoever has the higher number wins, with the tie going to the person with the 12 sided die. What is the probability that the person with the 20 sided die wins this game?

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