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A guide to the Jane Street programming interview

4 pointsby yminskyover 10 years ago

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coke12over 10 years ago
This is misleading, I think. I know from personal experience and also speaking with other people who&#x27;ve interviewed at Jane Street that their questions tend to emphasize lots of math, specifically probability but sometimes other stuff. Where the Google&#x2F;FB interview is about linked lists and tree traversals, the Jane Street interview is about coin flips and dice rolls.<p>&gt; We don&#x27;t ask developers mental math, or math olympiad questions despite what you might have read online. Dev interviews are about programming.<p>This is technically true, since the probability questions usually come in the form of a coding problem. But if you don&#x27;t know the math to back up your dynamic programming algorithm then you&#x27;re going to flub a question.