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      Summer Intern Trading Interview

      19 Mar 2013
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer

      Application

      I interviewed at Jane Street

      Interview

      4 rounds telephone interview and one in office

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      start a random walk on a vertex of a cube, with equal probability going along the three edges that you can see (to another vertex). what is the expected number of steps to reach the opposite vertex that you start with?
      2 Answers

      Other Summer Intern Trading interview reviews for Jane Street

      Summer Trading Intern Interview

      23 Oct 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Jane Street (London, England) in Oct 2021

      Interview

      I had two phone interviews, that consisted of doing various math questions. The first round was easier, and then it got harder. Overall each talk was about 30 min, and the questions were regarding basic probability, but really they were more like brain teasers that you can solve intuitively.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      you have a unfair coin say heads with probability p, you see 5 heads in a row, what's the chance you see a head?
      Answer question

      Summer Trading Intern Interview

      4 Oct 2011
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Jane Street (New York, NY) in Mar 2009

      Interview

      First interview was a 30 minute on-campus interview. During the first minute or so, the interviewer asked me a few questions about my resume. It seemed as if he wasn't really interested in the answers, and that he was only asking these questions to break the ice. He then proceeded onto some math questions. The first two or three questions were pretty easy, but I ended up being stumped by the last question and was not able to finish it with only a few minutes left. I thought I had failed, but later that week I learned that I had proceeded to the second round. I had two more phone interviews after the initial on-campus interview. The interviews consist of mathematical brain-teasers. They say that the interviews will only last half an hour, but in my experience, if you're doing well so far, the interviewer will ask you more questions and let you have more time. This was my experience with my first phone interview, which lasted about 45 minutes. In my second phone interview, after some initial talk about my resume, I got stumped on the first question. After about 20 minutes passed, the interviewer gave up and asked me a second, much easier question which I was able to answer. She then promptly ended the interview. Based on my experience, it seems that in order to progress with Jane Street, you simply need to be able to answer all questions asked of you, with the exception of maybe the last question asked in a particular interview when you are running out of time (like I said, during my first interview I was stumped on the last question; on my second interview I was running out of time and gave an answer to the last question that was close, but not correct, but I still progressed to the third interview). I've heard of people having as many as four or five interviews before a final on-site interview. If you're one of the few who survives through all the rounds, then you're probably pretty bright, and they will offer you a job. Even though I messed up, I thought the interviews were pretty fun. The interview questions are pretty cool. They're also not incredibly hard, but if you don't attack a certain problem the right way, you can easily get stuck. One other thing - at least at the stage I managed to get to, they don't care if you have any experience with or knowledge of finance or programming. They only care about how smart you are.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Say I take a rubber band and randomly cut it into three pieces. What's the probability that one of the pieces has length greater than 1/2 of the original circumference of the rubber band.
      9 Answers
      2