Gray Capital Interview Questions

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The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more insights, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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Trading Intern Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in Santa Barbara
Interviewed: April 2012
Date Submitted: Jul 17, 2012
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
I applied to Gray Whale Capital, online through their website. They have an email on the contacts section; I used that to email my resume to them. I got an email from them in about 3 weeks, asking me for a phone interview for their trading intern program during the summer. The interview was purely quantitative. The person interviewing me was a trader and he asked me a bunch of mental math and probability questions, which included a russian roulette problem. He also asked me to add, subtract, and multiply numbers to test my mental math. Another question he asked me was about flipping a bunch of coins and calculating the probability of getting heads or tails.
I would recommend doing some basic mental math in preparation for the interview, and going online and seeing common interview probability questions. The interview was fairly informal.
Interview Questions
You are tied to your chair and can't get up. Here's a gun. Here's the barrel of the gun, six chambers, all empty. Now watch me as I put two bullets in the gun. See how I put them in two adjacent chambers? I close the barrel and spin it. I put the gun to your head and pull the trigger. Click. You're still alive. Lucky you! Now, before we discuss your résumé, I'm going to pull the trigger one more time. Which would you prefer, that I spin the barrel first, or that I just pull the trigger?

Answer:
spin>> 2/6 = 1/3 die.
not spin >> 1/4 die.
therefore not spin.
If you were not to use a calculator, can you give me the square root for 58?
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