Jane Street is among the most technically demanding employers in the world and recruits heavily from IIT and NIT campuses in India.
About Jane Street
Quantitative trading firm; market-maker across global equities, ETFs, options, crypto, and bonds.
Resume or campus screen: targets top IITs, NITs, and competitive programming candidates
Online Assessment or phone screen: 1 to 2 hard algorithmic problems, 60 minutes
Technical Interview 1: Hard problem-solving with live thinking and iterative refinement
Technical Interview 2: A second hard problem, sometimes probability or combinatorics
Technical Interview 3 (on-site or virtual): Third problem, often the most open-ended
Offer or debrief: Decision is collective across all interviewers
Online Assessment or Phone Screen (60 min)
1 to 2 hard problems. They evaluate how you think aloud, not just whether you reach the answer.
Technical Interview 1 (60 min)
A hard algorithmic or mathematical problem. Interviewers expect you to explore wrong approaches openly and correct course collaboratively.
Technical Interview 2 (60 min)
May involve probability, combinatorics, or dynamic programming. Functional programming fluency is a significant advantage here.
Technical Interview 3 (60 min)
The most open-ended round. Problems are often novel and require building intuition from scratch during the session.
Sourced from 2+ candidate post-mortems. Hit Practice to answer any one with AI voice feedback.
7 more questions. Sign up to unlock all
Sign up free: unlock all questions