I applied in September and heard back within three hours; they wanted to interview me. I had to wait a few months, however, because they wanted to interview full-time applicants before interns. So, I waited until December for my interview.
It was a very informal interview with relatively easy questions, involving creating my own hash table and dealing with collisions for inserting and searching. Ultimately, I was not offered a spot, but the people there were quite professional.
There weren't really any hard questions. The interview I had was purely technical, with relatively simple questions.
The following metrics were computed from 75 interview experiences for the Jane Street Software Engineer role in United States.
Jane Street's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Jane Street's Software Engineer interview process in United States.