First round had a very brief component asking about my prior work experience and then 2 technical questions, one was regarding prime factorization and the second was regarding expectation of a certain stochastic process. The interviewer gave hints in moments where I was stuck. It seemed that I needed to solve the problems without any hints in the first round in order to proceed to the next one.
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
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
In a game you are given a distribution of marbles, how to figure out the maximum payoff without knowing the colors
Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Jane Street (Londres, Inglaterra).
Entrevista
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
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 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.
Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Jane Street (Hong Kong).
Entrevista
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