Jane Street

SWE Intern Interview Experience - New York, New York

December 30, 2024

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

It was a 45-minute technical interview with a software engineer at Jane Street over Zoom.

I was asked one coding question, and at the end, there was time for me to ask questions.

Questions

Finding the number of matching brackets in code, given as a list of strings.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 10 interview experiences for the Jane Street SWE Intern role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive90%

Neutral10%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Jane Street's SWE Intern 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