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The Wire
What candidates report being asked in the latest cycles, monitored across public interview reports, then rebuilt here as rigorous originals with full solutions. When the street's questions drift, the Wire drifts with them; a static question bank can't.
Methodology: concepts sourced from candidates' public accounts of their interviews · every prompt & solution is QuantPit original work · stamps record the reported period and firm style, not an affiliation
Pay to Peek
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“I'll Trade Ten Times Your Size”
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You Pick Second
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Reroll One of Two
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The Overlap Illusion
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Find the Three Leaks
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Size the Feed
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The Unit Trap Market
“Make me a market on tomorrow's high temperature in this city, in Celsius.” You quote 18 / 22. “Fine, now make me the same market …
Double or Quarter
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Turn 100 into 200
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Make a Market on the Coffees
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The Payoff Changes After You Answer
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Right on Direction, Still Down
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Five Reds in a Row
A fair roulette-style wheel has just landed red five spins running. A colleague offers you even money that the next spin is black,…
The Survey That Lies
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Does the Second Bet Help?
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Hire the Best of a Hundred
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Paths That Skip the Middle
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The Category Trick That Cheats
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Ant Across the Cube
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Price the Binary
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Add a Third Engine
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Make a Market on Piano Tuners
“Make me a two-sided market on the number of full-time piano tuners working in a city of about nine million people.” You get no da…
Prizes Around the Circle
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The Best of Twenty Backtests
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Why this section exists: interview fashions move, option stacks that price to zero, size-up follow-ups, leak-hunt formats. The Wire is refreshed as new cycles are reported, and every entry also lives in its home topic with the full hint-and-solution treatment.