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On the roadmap:Preparing for Fresher Quant Roles stage 10
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The interviewer says "make me a market" and waits. Here is what the game actually is, how to pick your two numbers, and what happens on every turn after your first quote.
A famous puzzle where a visitor announces something everybody already knew, and a hundred people leave the island anyway. The trick is the difference between everyone knowing a fact and everyone knowing that everyone knows it.
You interview candidates one at a time and must hire or reject on the spot. Look at 37 percent of them, then take the next one who beats everybody so far, and you land the very best more than a third of the time.
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