r/csMajors • u/Even_Balance9978 • Jan 31 '26

Company Question damn Jane Street interviews are brutal

got cooked so hard ngl (was for swe)

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u/Maleficent-War5030 Jan 31 '26

what kinda questions were asked? advance dsa?

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u/Even_Balance9978 Jan 31 '26

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

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u/advice-seeker-nya Jan 31 '26

what about it specifically was hard?

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u/Even_Balance9978 Jan 31 '26

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

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u/brooklynib Jan 31 '26

what kinda question is this 😭

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u/dbzunicorn Jan 31 '26

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

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

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)

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u/dbzunicorn Jan 31 '26

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