Quantitativer Trader Interview Questions

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You have $100 and get an extra $100 to play a casino game where you bet on flips of a fair coin, and this game has 4:5 payout. You must bet a total of at least $500 to cash out. How do you maximize your expected earnings?
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Quantitative Trader

Interviewed at Susquehanna International Group

3.8
Sep 27, 2024

You have $100 and get an extra $100 to play a casino game where you bet on flips of a fair coin, and this game has 4:5 payout. You must bet a total of at least $500 to cash out. How do you maximize your expected earnings?

From the traders: Standard probability/statistics/coding/options questions. Requires a bit of preparation, but nothing difficult. Behavioral questions were also typical for a trading firm (why trading, name a time you ____, etc) From CEO: Standard questions, similar to ones above Where are you from? What do your parents do? Do you have siblings? What does he/she do? What did you do between the gap years between undergrad and grad school? You said some things came up that required you to delay starting grad school. What problems came up?
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Quantitative Trader

Interviewed at TransMarket Group

4.1
Jun 8, 2022

From the traders: Standard probability/statistics/coding/options questions. Requires a bit of preparation, but nothing difficult. Behavioral questions were also typical for a trading firm (why trading, name a time you ____, etc) From CEO: Standard questions, similar to ones above Where are you from? What do your parents do? Do you have siblings? What does he/she do? What did you do between the gap years between undergrad and grad school? You said some things came up that required you to delay starting grad school. What problems came up?

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