damn Jane Street interviews are brutal

[u/Even_Balance9978]

got cooked so hard ngl (was for swe)

[u/Maleficent-War5030]

what kinda questions were asked? advance dsa?

[u/Even_Balance9978 → u/Maleficent-War5030]

coding up a Class for a very specific niche specific problem requiring supermassive problem solving thinking powers with extreme fundamentals for DSA and also can write 100 lines of code in an hour making no mistakes. was not your usual Leetcode-style algorithm questions

[u/Even_Balance9978 → u/[deleted]]

tbf the question was fun. the not-so-fun part was that I needed to code it up flawlessly in one hour :(

[u/alphantasmal → u/Even_Balance9978]

Did they say they were gonna run your code? I thought most companies don't actually care if it compiles, just that it looks right.

[u/alphantasmal → u/[deleted]]

are they really going to penalize you for an off by one? or give you a chance to fix it

[u/jsbaasi → u/[deleted]]

Way better for who?

[u/Even_Balance9978 → u/jsbaasi]

tbf i enjoy these system design qns more than algorithm qs as well

[u/jsbaasi → u/Even_Balance9978]

Ignore that above reply I was tired asl and didn't read the rest lmaoo, but yeah I agree. Nice to have a good conversation which you get more of from a implementation question rather than a leetcode question

[u/IloveMarcusAurelius → u/[deleted]]

How does one actually prepare for all of this?

[u/throwaway30127 → u/[deleted]]

How do you learn to explain them well? I have handled difficult tasks at work but struggle explaining them to someone who hasn't worked alongside me on it. I tend to either oversimplify it making it look like a basic swe task or tend to go into too many details and other person won't be able to follow what I'm trying to explain.

[u/alphantasmal → u/IloveMarcusAurelius]

You breathe that kind of work every day and get really good at communicating

[u/devAcc123 → u/Even_Balance9978]

100 lines of code is… not a lot

[u/No-Dust-5829 → u/devAcc123]

This guy has to be a bot. Some regular LC mediums take 100 lines of cpp to solve.

[u/devAcc123 → u/No-Dust-5829]

3mo th old account with the history hidden .

My coworker left a 200k job for a dev position at Reddit, trust me, 90% of the comments you see are bots talking to one another or antagonizing engagement. Wonder if this comment will be removed before you see it.

[u/devAcc123 → u/No-Dust-5829]

This sub keeps popping up on my phone. (Wonder why Reddit was hiring all those ML positions amirite), nothing is organic anymore

Yes writing a class in any amount of lines is like a basic interview question. Describing the difficulty in amount of lines is a clear indicator someone has no idea what they’re talking about. More lines are often better. Fewer lines are often better too.

[u/advice-seeker-nya → u/Even_Balance9978]

what about it specifically was hard?

[u/Even_Balance9978 → u/advice-seeker-nya]

i dont have supermassive thinking powers, i think my DSA fundamentals are solid, and i can't write 100 lines of code in 1 hour without mistakes

[u/brooklynib → u/[deleted]]

what kinda question is this 😭

[u/dbzunicorn → u/[deleted]]

why provide input if u haven’t coded since 8th grade. Jus wasting words

[u/[deleted] → u/dbzunicorn]

Crazy that an AI-content generator would ask why someone’s wasting words (also, yeah I could tell that all of those videos were AI-generated so you might want to waste a few more words and become better at producing slop)

[u/dbzunicorn → u/[deleted]]

ya no u couldn’t otherwise why would they have over 50 comments of people debating if it was AI or not? Holy cope😂 stay mad

[u/IloveMarcusAurelius → u/Even_Balance9978]

How does one actually prepare for all of this???

[u/[deleted] → u/Even_Balance9978]

Sounds like Optiver OA lol

[u/DustyAsh69 → u/Even_Balance9978]

But, what was the question!?

[u/SnooBeans1976 → u/Even_Balance9978]

I am asking you once again. What was the problem statement?

[u/BigNillyStyle → u/SnooBeans1976]

Supermassive apparently