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- What is the angle of a clock at 10:40? - If a car is racing around a 1 mile track and it goes 60 mph the first lap and 90 mph the second, what was its average speed for the 2 laps? - Why Jane Street/Why Finance? - Tell me about yourself? - Tell me about a time where you formed an unexpected relationship with someone in a work setting?
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Sales and Trading Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Jan 30, 2024

- What is the angle of a clock at 10:40? - If a car is racing around a 1 mile track and it goes 60 mph the first lap and 90 mph the second, what was its average speed for the 2 laps? - Why Jane Street/Why Finance? - Tell me about yourself? - Tell me about a time where you formed an unexpected relationship with someone in a work setting?

first question - let's play a game where you have ten chips, and you want to split them up into stacks such that you want to maximize your score, which is the product of the size of each stack. what's the best you can do with 10? what about 100 chips? what about N chips arbitrarily large?
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Quantitative Trading Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Feb 13, 2024

first question - let's play a game where you have ten chips, and you want to split them up into stacks such that you want to maximize your score, which is the product of the size of each stack. what's the best you can do with 10? what about 100 chips? what about N chips arbitrarily large?

Lots of difficult questions about expectation of random processes. For example, we play a game with a 100-sided die. Each roll costs a dollar, and you can choose to stop at any time and accept the dollar amount of your most recent roll. What is the best stopping time?
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Trading Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Feb 11, 2015

Lots of difficult questions about expectation of random processes. For example, we play a game with a 100-sided die. Each roll costs a dollar, and you can choose to stop at any time and accept the dollar amount of your most recent roll. What is the best stopping time?

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