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Quantitative Interview Questions
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You are given two envelopes. One contains twice as much money as the other. You randomly pick one envelope and see $100 inside. Should you switch?
Why Optiver? Walk me through how you'd make money on this game.
Formal proof for: You have two groups of marbles: 1 marble and 2^n marbles. You can only double of the groups at each step, taking the amount from the other group. Is it possible to reach a state of 0 marbles in one group and 2^n + 1 in the other?
Identify any arbitrage opportunities if any in the given matrix of currency conversion rates.
Deep dive in the experience. Why optiver? Leadership. How will other people give impression on me if they asked? How to solve conflicts?
They asked a tricky question to assess my understanding of linear regression and how it can be estimated. It required both conceptual knowledge and practical application.
Motivation for Quant role, what do you know about optiver/market making etc.
A sequence of fair coin tossing, with outcome H or T, what is the probability that HHH shows before HTH?
In the technical round, one question that I remember was approximating the probability of exactly 50 heads in 100 fair coin tosses, not given as a combinatorial formula but as a percentage or fraction.
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