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Software Engineer Interview Experience

September 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online and received an email a few days later for a phone interview. As I had applied for the Hong Kong office, the call came in the evening. The interview was fair, but I made some implementation mistakes and chose a hash table when a tree would have been a much better choice for the implementation. Unsurprisingly, I was informed via email a few days later that they were looking for other candidates.

Questions

Describe how a hash table works.

Design a Street Fighter game that displays a list of all combos given a button order. For example, if the user presses (->)AB, any move that activates on ->, A, B, ->A, AB, or ->AB needs to be printed. Allow the user to define their own combos as well.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 75 interview experiences for the Jane Street Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

5%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive52%
Neutral36%
Negative12%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Jane Street's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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