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To make markets on certain outcomes
The problems are confidential but were basic probability questions, included handling of expected value and knowing how to use it to your advantage. Also conditional probabilities.
Throw a dice, re-roll if you don't like the result. How do you maximize the expected value?
Probabilities. Expected value. Market making.
Repeated coin toss; The outcome observed; What is the probability of sth.
Why do you want to work at Jane Street? Asked to write a program (in language of choice) that took a name and a sequence of characters (as, for example, the name "jump" would be assigned the sequence 'ABC' in a simple video game). Needed one method to store name-sequence pairs, and one method that would print any names associated with a sequence of characters entered by the user.
Basic probability, some coding questions
What is the biggest number that does something...something...?
flip 4 coins. the probability of having an odd number of heads.
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