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Phone interview. All questions were mental math. You are not allowed to use pen/paper, calculator or computer. Asked me to find the angle between the hour and minute hand if the time is 9:30. Also, what is the probability that the world series goes till the 7th game.
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Trading

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Mar 11, 2015

Phone interview. All questions were mental math. You are not allowed to use pen/paper, calculator or computer. Asked me to find the angle between the hour and minute hand if the time is 9:30. Also, what is the probability that the world series goes till the 7th game.

You're throwing a party in 24 hours and have purchased 1,000 bottles of wine. You are informed that one of these 1,000 bottles is tainted with a slow-acting poison that will kill the consumer 24 hours after intake. You have 10 rats that you can use to taste the wine. How many bottles will you be able to ensure are not poisoned by the time the party begins?
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Summer Quantitative Trading Internship

Interviewed at Old Mission

4.2
Dec 2, 2013

You're throwing a party in 24 hours and have purchased 1,000 bottles of wine. You are informed that one of these 1,000 bottles is tainted with a slow-acting poison that will kill the consumer 24 hours after intake. You have 10 rats that you can use to taste the wine. How many bottles will you be able to ensure are not poisoned by the time the party begins?

Promised not to share the specific questions, but they were all Bayes' Rule. Think, "A% Chance of event happening one day, B% Chance of event happening the next, what's the probability it happened both days". That sort of thing.
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Trading Intern

Interviewed at Susquehanna International Group

3.8
Nov 2, 2016

Promised not to share the specific questions, but they were all Bayes' Rule. Think, "A% Chance of event happening one day, B% Chance of event happening the next, what's the probability it happened both days". That sort of thing.

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