a frog is travelling from A(0,0) to B(5,4). Each time it could move either right or up. How many paths can the frog travel?
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?
What is the fair price of entering a game where you win the value that a dice shows after a roll
Determine the value of an option given strike and underlying price
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?
They asked basic background stuff and then got into technical math questions. It was quite a challenge.
Two dice rolling questions, angle of clock hands, expected value of 20 faced dice.
Decompose 300,000 into prime factors, then arrange the resulting digits into the smallest possible number.
Average speed of a race car
Throw 1,000 fair coins, what's the possibility of getting even number of heads?
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