Jane street capital SWE
Has anyone applied there? Is it a good role in this company? Thanks!
Sounds boring
I don't believe in ocaml. I agree that you don't need to master the language to sense the BS part lol. Anyway, I am sure they have remarkable models and engineering. But using Scala could issue the same performance or even better
A friend of mine did an internship there. Very sane hours, 45ish/week on average. Huge emphasis on continuing education, both in programming and in finance. One cool thing he told me about was their game days, where they would form teams and simulate world events (eg, declarations of war, crashes natural resource economy, etc) and each team would have to try and make money off the situation. He was pretty impressed during his time there.
I interviewed as a trader to see what it was like; I bombed the loop, but they had me do one coding interview, and they wanted me to come back and do a full SWE loop, which was tempting, but I was already up against the deadlines on my other offers. I was impressed by how smart everyone seemed, and it seemed like a place I might want to work someday.
Is it easy to get trader interview with swe exp?
I bombed the interview there, but it seemed some red flags. Hours sounded stressful, one interviewer indicated he had to get a doctors certification of insomnia before manager would let him come in at 10AM since it's after markets open. Questions were niche domain problems and not really leetcodes. Wish I had studied in hindsight.
They claim they chose ocaml as their programming language because it is easier and faster to read and speeds up their development process. This is utter bullshit from a technical perspective.
Can you please share where you learned this? Not using ocaml part but the bullshit part. Thanks!
I meant is that does that reason really justify selecting a shitty language?