Susquehanna International Group Interview Questions & Reviews

You have 6 marbles of equal weight, except for one which is lighter. Using a balance scale, what is the minimum number of weighs you must use to determine which marble is the lightest.

What are the chances of you getting the same number when rolling 3 dice?
What are the chances of you getting the number 6 all three times?

If 5 people of different ages came into a restaurant, and they were seated at a round table with exacty five seats, what are you chances of them sitting in age order?

What if they were seated at a long table with exactly five seats (the 5 people will sit side by side)?

How can you help us? How will you contribute to the bottom line?

Examples of how you use Excel and Access in school or at work

Tell me about your time management skills. How do you prioritize?

Take me through your resume, focusing on the technical skills you've applied at each position

What kind of probability distribution describes the sum of the squares of independent normal random variables?

Probability

Assembly level explanation of virtual functions in C++

If we play a game in which Player 1 picks a number 1-11, and then player 2 can add 1-11 to that (i.e. player 1 picks 5, player 2 can add to make it 6-16), what is the strategy to win this game if Player 1 wants to make 60?

If i toss 3 pieces on a tic-tac-toe board at random, and I pay you $9 if the pieces create tic-tac-toe, and you pay me $1 if they dont, do you want to play the game? (Expected value problem)

You know there are 2 boys and an unknown number of girls in a nursery at a hospital. Then a woman gives birth a baby, but you dont know its gender, and it is placed in the nursery. Then a nurse comes in a picks up a baby and it is a boy. Given that the nurse picks up a boy, what is the probability that the woman gave birth to a boy? (Hint, it does not matter how many girls are in the nursery to begin with)