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      Developer Interview

      Jul 11, 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Hong Kong
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Jane Street (Hong Kong) in Jul 2020

      Interview

      My feeling about the process is really mixed. The HR and the business people were welcoming and interesting but from an IT point of view, it was so unprofessional, that I could only see it as a pure waste of time. The process was : - week 1: home exercise (2 days) to do ... on Excel - week 2: interview with HR (1 hour) with brainteasers - week 3: home exercise (2 days) to do ... on Excel again - week 4: 3 interviews (4-5 hours): - IT architecture exercise with operational people - data reconciliation exercise with front-office - a coder pad on Java (with 2 simple questions) with a developer - then no news during 2 weeks, then rejection... and no feedback at all. Pros : - the HR is nice, professional, has a strong knowledge of her organization, and was -by far- one of my best experience in the industry (for that position) - the Operationals & Front-Office have given interesting real-case exercises (that you could face during your job), and they were welcoming and I could ask about their business which is always interesting. Cons : - their process is about... everything except IT. With two exercices on Excel (first one just about formulas, second about emulating a cartesian product with VBA), how could you seriously pretend evaluating anything about coding ? - the last interview with the developer was creepy. The questions were super basic... but I could see that the guy was not listening to me (he was tapping on his computer during the whole interview) and as a consequence, if he has no interest in listening to me... I will not get the job. To counter such kind of arbitrary, you usually face multiple developers, and I don't know why Jane Street do not do that. - no feedback at all, when the process is long and you do it until the end, is extremely rude. Yes their time is precious, mine is surely not... but I don't see how writing an email with 2-3 lines of feedback is such a pain.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I don't like to disclose questions, but here are the subjects that you may need to cover: - Finance: Haircut Computation, Order Management System - Excel: Formulas, VBA - Brainteaser: Equation Solving, Conditional Probability - IT : lol
      Answer question
      6

      Other Developer interview reviews for Jane Street

      Software Engineer Interview

      May 8, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Jane Street

      Interview

      It was a very quick and painless process. Recruiter very responsive, kind interviewers. High implementation and difficult problems, so failed onsite after 3 interviews and a Question and Answer Session.

      Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 15, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Jane Street (London, England)

      Interview

      Did not pass the initial coding round. I tried to explain my thought in details to the interviewer but failed to translate my thought into code. So far interviewer is very nice.

      Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 16, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Jane Street (New York, NY)

      Interview

      My experience interviewing at Jane Street was definitely challenging, but also surprisingly collaborative. Instead of focusing only on whether I could get the right answer quickly, the interviewers were much more interested in how I approached problems and explained my thinking. I worked through a few coding questions involving data structures and algorithms, and there were also some probability-style questions that tested logical reasoning. The interviewers were clearly very sharp, but they were also approachable and encouraged me to talk through my thought process the entire time. When I got stuck, they would sometimes guide me with small hints so we could keep exploring the problem together. Overall, it felt less like a typical high-pressure interview and more like a thoughtful technical conversation with experienced engineers.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      “What is the expected number of coin flips needed to get two heads in a row?”
      Answer question
      1

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