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4 players in a game, rolling dice. The one with the largest value and the one with the smallest value team up. The others team up as well. The winning team is the team with the biggest sum of the dice values. The payoff is the difference between the sums.
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Quant Trader Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Oct 4, 2021

4 players in a game, rolling dice. The one with the largest value and the one with the smallest value team up. The others team up as well. The winning team is the team with the biggest sum of the dice values. The payoff is the difference between the sums.

Given a spy and a handler, they communicate as follows: each day, the spy walk across a building which has 100 windows, and he can choose which window to break. The handler goes to look at the building each night. The question is how many bit of info can be transmitted. The second part is the following variant: each night the handler can now repair windows. The task is to come up with a scheme that maximize the minimum possible amount of bits of info transmitted every night.
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Quant Interview

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Nov 21, 2023

Given a spy and a handler, they communicate as follows: each day, the spy walk across a building which has 100 windows, and he can choose which window to break. The handler goes to look at the building each night. The question is how many bit of info can be transmitted. The second part is the following variant: each night the handler can now repair windows. The task is to come up with a scheme that maximize the minimum possible amount of bits of info transmitted every night.

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