Jane Street

Data Engineer Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom

November 1, 2024

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The first stage was a live coding interview with someone in the New York office. There wasn't any small talk, and we went straight into the task. I should have clarified some of the details of the problem before going into the solution.

Questions

It was a block-stacking game with rules on which color blocks could be placed next to each other.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Jane Street Data Engineer role in London, United Kingdom.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Jane Street's interview process for their Data Engineer roles in London, the United Kingdom is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral50%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Jane Street's Data Engineer interview process in London, United Kingdom.

Jane Street Interview Questions

Count Common Words With One Occurrence

Easy

You are given two lists of words. Find the number of words that appear exactly once in each of the two lists.

ArraysStrings

Walking Robot Simulation

Medium

Simulate a robot's movement on an infinite grid based on a sequence of commands and obstacles. Determine the square of the robot's final Euclidean distance from the origin.

Arrays

Minimum Time to Make Array Sum At Most x

Hard

You are given an array and want to minimize the time to make its sum at most a given value. You can reorder the array elements strategically to achieve this minimum time.

ArraysDynamic Programming