Jane Street

Software Developer Interview Experience - New York, New York

November 8, 2023

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

First, there was a phone round. Then, I had an all-day in-person interview process.

I did not have a take-home assignment, but I think there usually is one.

Questions

Only coding questions were asked.

There were no behavioral questions, as far as I got.

I do not want to share specific questions.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Jane Street Software Developer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Jane Street's interview process for their Software Developer roles in New York, New York is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral25%

Negative25%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Jane Street's Software Developer interview process in New York, New York.

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