What interview questions did D. E. Shaw ask Larry Summers?

by gabrielroth on 4/7/2009, 12:35 AM with 22 comments
  • by tokenadult on 4/7/2009, 1:02 AM

    Cool. A press interview with Richard Rusczyk about his work before he founded the Art of Problem Solving website.

    http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/index.php

    Rusczyk always has something interesting to say.

  • by tomsaffell on 4/7/2009, 4:06 AM

    [Warning: Spoiler]

    > Of course, you can't offer the guy infinity dollars. So the interviewee is forced to either settle on a real world number—as much as the player can afford—or delve into marginal utility theory

    I don't think that as much as the player can afford is a real world answer, unless it means as much as the player can afford to lose. There is a 50% chance he'll walk away with $1. As Wall Street have proven, it's not about maximizing expected returns, it's about optimizing returns within bounds of acceptable risk.

  • by aswanson on 4/7/2009, 1:26 AM

    I've never done a trade in my life and it took all of about 12 seconds to get the right answers on the first two. They didn't list the third. Seriously, 5.4 MM for that?...http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a4iG...

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