Jane Street Software Engineer interview experience

The interviewer seemed very focused on syntax issues, more than the structure of the solution, and kept pointing out small language problems even when I was aiming for pseudo-code-level reasoning.

I did manage to solve three tasks, and it felt like at least some of them were more about logic than exact implementation. Still, I didn’t pass the round.

What was most frustrating was realizing that the evaluation might have been tightly coupled to the surface-level correctness of the code rather than the correctness of the approach I was explaining. I walked away feeling like I’d done the