Jane Street

Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

October 2, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The process consists of two 45-minute phone rounds, which asked LeetCode-style questions (though somewhat implementation-heavy), followed by an onsite at the physical office location. The onsite had multiple coding rounds.

Questions

Build out an ETF class and calculate fair values.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 27 interview experiences for the Jane Street Software Engineer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

11%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive63%

Neutral30%

Negative7%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Jane Street's Software Engineer 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