Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Jane Street with 3.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 59% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Internship roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 29 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Jane Street overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Jane Street as a Internship according to 29 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 38%
Presentation: 19%
One on one interview: 13%
Skills test: 13%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Personality test: 6%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 3%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Jane Street (Hong Kong) in Mar 2020
Interview
The hiring process is simple. Sent a resume in and was invited to the first round phone interview. After that, a second-round phone interview and then the onsite interview. The first round interview was a 30-min technical screening, with a few basic probability questions which can all be found in glassdoor (something I only realized when I was preparing for the second round interview). The second round interview (40 mins) was significantly harder. I have basically read all the interview questions in glassdoor, but unfortunately facing two new questions in the actual interview. Long story short, the first question was hard and I did bad. I was only able to narrow down the answer to a range and then moved on to the next question. Similarly, I only gave my best guestimate of the actual answer. The longest time the trader allowed me to think without talking was 30 seconds. Feel bad after the interview but surprisingly received an invite to onsite a day after. The trader explained in the interview that it is ok to not find the answer to the question and he want to know how I approach the question. One feedback was given in the end when I asked for advice to improve: think more before diving into specific calculations. My guess will be: They only design such difficult questions to understand how you approach a question, how you react to the many hints given by the trader, whether or not you have a good intuition and whether or not you can make a sensible decision based on a limited understanding of the problem within a very limited time frame. Good luck everyone.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
probability of getting even heads with 4 coins? 100 coins? what if one of them is unfair? what if all of them are unfair? what if only one of them is fair? how many fair coins needed in them to ensure a 50% chance to get even heads?
Heard Jane Street has exciting internships for female students so I decided to apply. Filled out online application. Received a response for online assessment. The assessment was quite difficult for me. The interview was even harder. Lots of technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Two players, flipping a coin until one player wins. A wins if the roll ends with HHT. B wins if the roll ends with HTT. What are the odds B wins the game.
very hard and demanding. they are very selective. they like puzzles and pushing you to think out loud. interviewers are nice though. would possible try in the future. maybe. will see
Asked to play a game and probability - the probability questions were easy, and the game had very little math. It was over an hour, closer to 1 hour 30 minutes. Over zoom