1st round: 30 min phone screen with recruiter 2nd round: This is where they lost me. The second round is a case study using expected value done OVER THE PHONE. So unreasonable and unfair to give a candidate a case study verbally over the phone instead of in writing. Something like this has to be more of a take-home assignment or a zoom interview with a word doc with the case study in writing. It's super unreasonable to give somebody a case study on the fly over the phone and expect them to have time to 1, write down the information from the case study and 2, try to solve the problem at the same time. When in the real world would you ever be given a problem like this to solve over the phone instead of in writing? Completely unfair to have this done over a phone call.
I applied online. I interviewed at DraftKings (Boston, MA) in Oct 2025
Interview
3 Interviews, first was a statistics exercise about a grocery store (adding coupons, choosing stores, expected value stuff), second was about optimizing a subway station, third was about A/B testing and more expected value exercises.
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You are choosing a grocery store to buy your groceries at. At one, the groceries cost $110, but you have a coupon for $20 off with purchases of over $100 which has a 80% chance of working. At the other, it costs $100. Which do you go to?
Three rounds, two case studies and one behavioral and resume review. One case study was an expected value problem about ticket pricing. Another case was regarding gathering analytics. The interviewer walks you through these problems step by step
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Expected value problems given a certain set of circumstances. Have to calculate the changing expected value with additional factors to take into account and make decisions based on these outcomes.
First there was a phone screen with HR, then a behvaorial / basic prob. questions with a team member, then a case interview with a member of the business analyst team, then an onsite with a behavioral followed by another case.
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Question 1
Asked about the costs and benefits of attending an event.
