Gray Whale Capital Interview Questions

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Interview Difficulty (41%)

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% Interns - FT Offers (22%)

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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 reviews). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to the simple company average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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Summer Internship (Trading) Interview - Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Santa Barbara
Interviewed: October 2012
Date Submitted: Sep 22, 2013
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Submitted resume through my university's career website. A few weeks later, I received an email from an HR representative to schedule a phone interview with a trader. During the interview, I was asked rapid fire mental math questions as well as a few simple probability questions. I recommend brushing up on techniques for doing quick mental math problems.
Interview Questions
What is the probability of drawing 2 or more heads from 3 coin tosses?

This is equivalent to 1 - (the probability of drawing a 3 tails), which is 1 - 1/8 = 7/8
We are playing a game of Russian roulette. I place 3 bullets in the chamber, which can hold a maximum of 6 bullets. I spin the chamber, place the gun to my head and pull the trigger. It was a blank. Now I hand you the gun. What is your strategy? Should you (a) fire the next shot in sequence (b) spin the chamber before firing?

Under (a) the probability that the next space does not contain a bullet is 2/5, whereas under (b) the probability is 1/2. Choose (b) to maximize your likelihood of survival.
Same game of Russian roulette, except this time you specifically see that all 3 bullets were loaded adjacent to each other inside the chamber. Does your strategy change?

Yes. Try to visualize this. There are only three positions that the chamber could take that would place a blank in the barrel. Since the bullets and the blanks are adjacent to each other, only one of these positions will have a bullet at the next spot in sequence. So, firing the next shot in sequence will give 2/3 odds of survival. This is an improvement over spinning the barrel.
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