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There is a fair dice. After the first roll, you can decide whether to take the number or roll it again. However, you have to take the value from the second roll. If I charge you $4 to play this game and pay you whatever the dice shows, will you play this game?
Nov 9, 2014

There is a fair dice. After the first roll, you can decide whether to take the number or roll it again. However, you have to take the value from the second roll. If I charge you $4 to play this game and pay you whatever the dice shows, will you play this game?

Q1: Brain teaser, very simple, about conditional probability Q2: statistical estimation, we need to know how to use CLT and the confidence interval, simple and easy Q3: Hard question, need some knowledge in Markov chain and conditional probability. The hardest part is that I was asked to answer the following question" explain your result intuitively, what is the reason for that expectation be that value?" Q4: Dice game question with infinite many rolls, it is a hard one and the result is really counter intuitive.
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Quantitative Developer

Interviewed at Hudson River Trading

4.1
Feb 1, 2021

Q1: Brain teaser, very simple, about conditional probability Q2: statistical estimation, we need to know how to use CLT and the confidence interval, simple and easy Q3: Hard question, need some knowledge in Markov chain and conditional probability. The hardest part is that I was asked to answer the following question" explain your result intuitively, what is the reason for that expectation be that value?" Q4: Dice game question with infinite many rolls, it is a hard one and the result is really counter intuitive.

Previous salary and experience. Mastery of English Language Basic properties of Black-Scholes models and risk-neutral measures Bond pricing and convexity hedging Elementary probability models (cards, binomial distributions, gaussian limits of LLN) Programming: some pseudocode for some simple numerical interpolation routines
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Quantitative Analyst

Interviewed at Citi

3.6
May 16, 2022

Previous salary and experience. Mastery of English Language Basic properties of Black-Scholes models and risk-neutral measures Bond pricing and convexity hedging Elementary probability models (cards, binomial distributions, gaussian limits of LLN) Programming: some pseudocode for some simple numerical interpolation routines

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