Work out a strategy for playing a game where a 100 sided fair die is rolled, and you are paid the value shown on the die in pounds. Each roll of the die costs £1.
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Specific interview questions are confidential; I will only note that they were probability problems and some basic game theory. No fancy math, though some problems did require a trick as the straightforward approach would take way too long.
They give me a large integer number. The task is to decompose it into prime numbers and construct a new number.
Basic probability, some coding questions
How much would you pay to roll a 6 sided die?
flip 4 coins. the probability of having an odd number of heads.
Two teams are playing a best-of-7 tournament. Each team has a 50% chance of winning. What is the probability that they reach the 7th game?
Round 1: Typical Question you can find here. Adding up odd numbers within 100, two painters paint at different speed to work together, what's the chance 12 coins tossed having an even number of heads. Totally 8 of them.
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.
I had the infamous 30-sided-die-two-player game alluded to in other posts.
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