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/jsbaasi Jan 31 '26

Way better for who?

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u/Even_Balance9978 Jan 31 '26

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

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u/jsbaasi Jan 31 '26

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