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Given deck of cards A and deck of cards B, which deck would you rather choose from if you need to choose two cards of the same color on consecutive draws? Deck A is a normal 52 card deck, Deck B is a 26 card deck with 50% black and 50% red. What if we add deck C, which is a 26 card deck that comes from a random subset of deck A?
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4★
Oct 17, 2015

Given deck of cards A and deck of cards B, which deck would you rather choose from if you need to choose two cards of the same color on consecutive draws? Deck A is a normal 52 card deck, Deck B is a 26 card deck with 50% black and 50% red. What if we add deck C, which is a 26 card deck that comes from a random subset of deck A?

Describe a situation where you influence a team, face problem in your life and how you solve it, learn something to accomplish a goal, etc. Quite a bit of technical questions related to past projects you have done and how you would approach a real life problem faced by researchers (i.e. how to solve xxx problem a particular product formulation).
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R&D Researcher

Interviewed at Procter & Gamble

4.1★
Oct 29, 2015

Describe a situation where you influence a team, face problem in your life and how you solve it, learn something to accomplish a goal, etc. Quite a bit of technical questions related to past projects you have done and how you would approach a real life problem faced by researchers (i.e. how to solve xxx problem a particular product formulation).

given a series of real numbers, what's the optimal point in real line that minimize the distance between all these numbers? follow up: what's the best algorithm to calculate the median of a sequence of numbers? follow up2: design a algorithm able to update the median of sequence as there are new numbers coming in.
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Citadel

4★
Oct 31, 2018

given a series of real numbers, what's the optimal point in real line that minimize the distance between all these numbers? follow up: what's the best algorithm to calculate the median of a sequence of numbers? follow up2: design a algorithm able to update the median of sequence as there are new numbers coming in.

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