Jane Street·Software Engineer

Jane Street Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

NYCPosted Apr 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had an onsite interview that ran across multiple rounds with different teams.

The biggest thing I remember was that the questions felt very difficult, and they didn’t line up with my background or experience as well as I expected.

The overall journey felt mismatched rather than just “hard.” I tried to push through and stay focused, but by the time I saw the later rounds, it was hard not to feel like I was fighting the format more than the actual problems.

I didn’t end up getting an offer. My honest takeaway was that even if I performed as well as I could, the alignment between what they were testing and what I’d done before mattered a lot, and I didn’t get that

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