interviewing for a software engineering role at Jane Street in about 5 weeks. i've done the research, read the blog posts, found a handful of Glassdoor things that are 2-3 years old. would really appreciate current signal.
specifically: how many rounds is the loop running at right now? still doing OCaml in round 2 even for general SWE? are they doing virtual or onsite for finals? and any sense of how much probability/quant content showed up for a pure SWE role vs. a quant research role?
not looking for people to hand me answers, just trying to calibrate how much time i need to put into each area. thanks in advance.
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corp_refugee
my loop from last fall: 4 rounds total, one phone screen, two technical (one OCaml), one combined systems + trading-intuition. all virtual. finals were NOT onsite for me. OCaml was definitely in there for SWE, not optional.
backend_bekah
friend did the loop in Q1 this year. similar structure. said the probability questions were lighter than expected for a pure SWE role, more like "can you reason about this" than "derive this closed form." the OCaml round was the main wall for her.
ml_mike
for quant research it's a different story, much heavier on math and market intuition. if you're SWE track i'd spend maybe 20% of your prep on the probability stuff and 80% on OCaml + systems. that was my read from people i know there.
newgrad_neil
following this thread, i'm also targeting Jane Street next cycle. the data is helpful.