Software Engineering Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Jane Street with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 57% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineering Intern roles take an average of 13 days to get hired, when considering 7 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 Software Engineering Intern according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 45%
Skills test: 18%
One on one interview: 18%
Group panel interview: 9%
Presentation: 9%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Jane Street (New York, NY) in Aug 2021
Interview
Phone Screen (45-60 minutes) with leetcode medium questions. Got back to me 2 days after that inviting me to a virtual onsite. Attended the onsite and did 2 hour long interviews with 2 software engineers in each one. First was leetcode medium, second was leetcode hard. They gave me a break for lunch and when I was invited back they told me that they were not proceeding with my application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about Binary Tree traversals and Hash Functions.
Self introduction. Describe past experience with skills relevant to the job. Live coding of several algorithms as part of one combined software system in a remote call with a full-time engineer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Have you had experience with functional programming?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Jane Street (Cambridge, England) in Oct 2025
Interview
I had a phone interview where we went over a technical problem. The interviewer described the problem in a very clear and well-defined way. I was allowed to code in any language I wanted to (ended up going with python). The response times are good, this company will not ghost you.
had a video call with a recruiter, was able to provide times and they chose one. The recruiter was very nice and helped when I got stuck on the problem