Applied online and passed the resume screen, got invited to a first round, didn't pass, was my first time interviewing for quant and nerves made me answer not quite at the best of my ability
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In a game you are given a distribution of marbles, how to figure out the maximum payoff without knowing the colors
cool guy first talked about how i am and life for 2 minutes and then asked me two quant questions, didnt help me much during the questions but qas listening and trying to understand my thought process. I was a bit stressed and so didnt do well.
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you have a jar with 3 +1$ balls and 2 -1$ balls inside, you draw one by one without replacement and can stop at any time. How much would you pay to play this game?
I was qualified for the first round of the interview proccess. I was asked about the reasons why i want to become a Quant and why i applied in Jane street for this role. After I was asked two probability questions. The interviewer was ok but at some moments I wasn't sure if she was following my thoughts
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Question 1
Mainly I failied since I tried to give them a strict answer to one of the problems(which was impossible to calculate in this time) and the wanted to hear some intuitive approach which leads to approximately correct answer.
they spend a lot of time trying to understand your thought process. the interview question use simple scenarios and build from them to more complex ones to understand how you handle adversity