Brainteasers Questions for Systematic & Data-Driven Trading Interviews
A systematic & data-driven trading round does not test brainteasers the way a textbook does. This set is the overlap - the brainteasers questions that actually turn up in this format.
35 questions, all free to practise. The split is 1 easy, 14 medium, 20 hard.
- All the squares on a chessboardEasyCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- 25 horses, 5 tracksMediumBrainteasersView →
- A cube ending in elevenMediumProbabilityBrainteasersView →
- Average salary, kept privateMediumBrainteasersStatisticsView →
- Deleting every other number on a circleMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Digits of concatenated powersMediumBrainteasersView →
- Enlarging a square orchardMediumBrainteasersView →
- Fox, goose, beans crossingMediumBrainteasersView →
- One hundred light bulbsMediumBrainteasersView →
- Rebuilding a tower of ten ringsMediumBrainteasersProgramming & DSAView →
- Regression to the meanMediumBrainteasersStatisticsView →
- Right angles in 12 hoursMediumBrainteasersView →
- Squares on a chessboard, tilted ones includedMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Sum of the pandigital numbersMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- The painted cubeMediumBrainteasersView →
- A geometric series that sums to a squareHardBrainteasersView →
- A weighted sum of binomialsHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Ages from product and sumHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Average of near-diagonal numbersHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Bertrand's chordHardProbabilityBrainteasersView →
- Blue-eyed islandersHardBrainteasersView →
- Digits with distinct pairwise sumsHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Doors toggled by primesHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Handshakes at a dinner partyHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Hats with 100 colorsHardBrainteasersView →
- Last one standingHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Locks for a four-of-seven safeHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Pairing with a difference of 1 or 11HardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Prisoners and the boxesHardProbabilityBrainteasersView →
- Shuffles to restore the deckHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Sum of repeating decimalsHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- The racing camelsHardBrainteasersView →
- Three eggs, nine dropsHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Two eggs, 100 floorsHardBrainteasersView →
- When k-to-the-k is a squareHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
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