Jane Street Software Engineer interview experience

I was sent home at lunch, after only part of the onsite, which was handled very respectfully. Every person I spoke with before that point was pleasant and the questions felt interesting.

What stuck with me most was how different the tone of the interviews could be depending on the individual interviewer. On a coding-focused round, I ran into an interviewer who seemed visibly disengaged and the experience felt hostile from the start, which made it harder to stay comfortable and perform the way I normally would.

I didn’t receive an offer. Looking back, the technical bar clearly mattered, but