Jane Street Capital Interview Questions

“How heavy is Mount Everest?”

“No “unexpected” question types. 1 fit “describe your experience at college” question at most. Everything else was math and probability in first round.”

“The networking questions were tough, but fair. The manager who asked me VBScript questions expected me to know the minutiae of VBscript syntax when it is 1) a legacy language that's going out of…”

“Coding a calculator program.”

“We were not allowed to use any calculator for the mathematics part and we were expected to answer all questions mentally with quite high accuracy.”

“We are playing a game where we start at 0 and flip a coin until someone wins. Every heads that is flipped adds +1 to the number and every tails add -1. If the number reaches -10 I (the interviewer…”

“Computing an expectation that involved several fractions with denominator 32 in my head”

“3 million - 237”

“Game/gambling questions like what tactics ensures winning/better outcome”