Quant interview questions
1,322 questions in the style trading and research firms ask, from probability and brainteasers to options, statistics and coding. Every question is open to read; the 50 in the free sample show their worked solutions here.
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- You have two identical eggs and a 100-floor building, and want the highest…Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- On the island of blue-eyed logicians, everyone can already see that someone has blue eyes.Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- A balance, and coins of which exactly one is counterfeit and either heavy or light.Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- The pot is $100 and your opponent bets $100.Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- A fair coin is flipped until it lands heads; the game pays $2ᵏ if the first…Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- Five pirates in strict seniority split one hundred coins.Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- A company is worth V to its owner, uniform between 0 and 100, and only the owner knows V.Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- You play rock–paper–scissors for money, except that a win with rock over…Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- Four dice have faces A = (4,4,4,4,0,0), B = (3,3,3,3,3,3), C = (6,6,2,2,2,2)…Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- Your opponent bets and you must call $20 to win a pot that now holds $60.Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- One hundred prisoners stand in a line, each wearing a black or white hat.Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- A hundred ants are placed at random on a stick one metre long, each facing a…Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- Twenty counters are on the table.Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- In Chomp, players alternately bite a square from a rectangular chocolate bar…Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- Pennies with uneven stakes, part 3 of 3Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- Three heaps of Nim, part 3 of 3Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- A die game with paid re-rolls, part 3 of 3Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- Hiring the best candidate, part 3 of 3Games, decision theory and puzzles · Advanced
- What does the Sprague–Grundy theorem say about impartial games under normal play?Games, decision theory and puzzles · Expert
- One hundred prisoners each open fifty of one hundred boxes to find their own…Games, decision theory and puzzles · Expert
- A shuffled deck of 26 red and 26 black cards is turned over one card at a time.Games, decision theory and puzzles · Expert