Jane Street Software Engineer interview experience

The whole approach centered on how I approached problems and explained my thinking, not just whether I landed quickly on the right answer.

I worked through multiple coding questions involving data structures and algorithms, and I also got probability-style questions aimed at logical reasoning. The interviewers were sharp, but they were approachable and actively wanted me to talk through my thought process the entire time. When I got stuck, they didn’t shut the conversation down; they would sometimes offer small hints to keep exploring instead of forcing a hard stop.

Because of that, the