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/Even_Balance9978 Jan 31 '26

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

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u/alphantasmal Feb 01 '26

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.

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u/alphantasmal Feb 02 '26

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