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Ball game 3 buckets, each with one space. Every time you throw the ball, you are guaranteed to hit one bucket. (if it is filled, it bounces out). Every ball in - +1, every ball out, -1 You have 2 balls, what is the expected gain?
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Quant Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Sep 8, 2025

Ball game 3 buckets, each with one space. Every time you throw the ball, you are guaranteed to hit one bucket. (if it is filled, it bounces out). Every ball in - +1, every ball out, -1 You have 2 balls, what is the expected gain?

Dice game with 100-sided die, play against an opponent and the one who gets the higher number wins 1€ from the casino (not from the other person). Tie = no money. You get the option to double the number of your roll for 0.2€. In what interval is it worth doubling?
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Quant trader

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Nov 15, 2025

Dice game with 100-sided die, play against an opponent and the one who gets the higher number wins 1€ from the casino (not from the other person). Tie = no money. You get the option to double the number of your roll for 0.2€. In what interval is it worth doubling?

First Round questions on Probability and Statistics, Moment generating functions, joint distribution and Bayes Theorem. A bit of stochastic calculus and some basic coding questions that i got. Second Round:- Some questions on probability, my resume, explanation for my lack(read 0) of computer science projects , Brainteasers, black scholes model , high level questions on coding that i had no clue.
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Quant Intern

Interviewed at J.P. Morgan

3.9
Aug 3, 2018

First Round questions on Probability and Statistics, Moment generating functions, joint distribution and Bayes Theorem. A bit of stochastic calculus and some basic coding questions that i got. Second Round:- Some questions on probability, my resume, explanation for my lack(read 0) of computer science projects , Brainteasers, black scholes model , high level questions on coding that i had no clue.

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