Quantitative Research Internship Interview Questions

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A mouse can move one room over within three adjacent rooms in a row each day. You can only check one room. What is the expected number of days it will take to find the mouse? Then, same question but rooms are in a triangle, meaning the mouse can go to either of the two other rooms it is not in.
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Quantitative Researcher (Intern)

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Jul 9, 2021

A mouse can move one room over within three adjacent rooms in a row each day. You can only check one room. What is the expected number of days it will take to find the mouse? Then, same question but rooms are in a triangle, meaning the mouse can go to either of the two other rooms it is not in.

Given 3 black and 2 white balls in a bag, you can take several balls and stop when you want to. How should you determine when to stop in order to maximize expectation of b-w. This part is easy, Then some generalization of it which is really hard.
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Apr 8, 2022

Given 3 black and 2 white balls in a bag, you can take several balls and stop when you want to. How should you determine when to stop in order to maximize expectation of b-w. This part is easy, Then some generalization of it which is really hard.

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