Lots of fast probability and expectation estimations. They make you play a lot of their games. Have to also be fairly familiar with options and futures, at least the basics. Be familiar with market making fundamentals too.
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questions on probability distribution and statistics like when which distribution is used and to find the standard deviation of any function . when poison distribution is used what is shape of the curve.
-Describe 2008 financial crisis -Asked me a question regarding bernoulli distribution -If a car went around a lap at an average of 100 mph, how fast does it need to go around the 2nd time to average 200 mph?
How to generate random numbers from a Gaussian distribution?
Write a function to compute the max drawdown of any time series of PnL's.
Describe your past trading experience and your familiarity with statistical analysis
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