Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Jane Street
Colloquio
Online assessment followed by Zoom interview. First half was a case study putting yourself in the position of a rental car company designing an algorithm for deciding when a car needs replacing or repairing. Second half was a quanty sort of game theory problem.
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Design an algorithm for a car rental company for when they should replace, repair (or keep) a car.
Suppose you implement the model and after a year you notice you are spending more on buying new cars than before. Individual cars are not more expensive and there is nothing wrong with the model. Why could this be?
You are playing a two-player game with a running total of 1 and each turn you can multiply this by a number from 2 to 9 inclusive. The first player to hit or surpass 5000 wins. What is the strategy? Should you go first?
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Jane Street (New York, NY)
Colloquio
The first stage is an online assessment. After that for interviews, it was one initial interview with a case study, then a day of 3 in person interviews. If you pass the first 2, you move on to the third.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Questions based on what you had to study for the interview, but in the context of using that information in a way that relates to something you might be looking at for the company.
I have only done the hackerank so far and got a first round. From my research, the interview process can consist of 1-2 Zoom interviews before an in person superday which typically consists of math (business case), technical, and a behavioral round.
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Domanda 1
Probability (regarding cards) and a lot of order book questions.
It was a case on how to improve Lyft. There was also a math competition question similar to those found in AMC. The question came first and then the case.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
It was a case on how to improve Lyft. There was also a math competition question similar to those found in AMC. The question came first and then the case.