S&T Brainteaser Help

When it comes to brainteasers, how hard can I expect them to be? With SA 2025 recruiting soon, working my way through brainteasers.

I have a background in statistics, so wondering how advanced the probability brainteasers might be... anyone have an idea? This is for regular S&T not quant research or something. Thank you!

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reviving this thread:
apart from brainteasers and market based questions, do you ask mental math stuff?
and for the more quanty desks, do they test your coding abilities (python leetcode)? for non-quanty desk enough to be able to pull data and do some basic analysis?

another point: does being a decent poker, blackjack or chess player add value to a candidate's profile?

 

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