Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Jane Street
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I submitted my resume online, and was contacted a few days later to interview for the Trading Desk Operations position. I was asked a time and date when they could send some excel exercises, to be completed in 2-3 days. I sent them back within 3 days, and got a rejection e-mail shortly after. Exercises were not necessarily hard, but tedious and very finance-involved in terms of context, while the context needed is provided through pdf files and explanations.
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Excel files on haircuts and one sheet on excel functions, lookup, etc.
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Jane Street (Londra, Inghilterra)
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2 round online interviews. first round is leetcode, 2nd round is online 1to1 zoom interview, asked me brain teaser questions only, did not discuss cv. i f up on quite easy questions. shame on me.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Jane Street (Londra, Inghilterra) nel mese di feb 2026
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Applied through a referral. The first step was an initial HackerRank-style assessment that was pretty straightforward and mostly Excel/data-analysis type work. I had to look up values, calculate metrics like profit, and answer practical business/math questions.
The second round was with a TDOE and was much more intense. It focused on live problem solving, analytical reasoning, and probability/math concepts. I would recommend being comfortable with expected value, expected wait times, conditional probability, basic optimization, and explaining tradeoffs clearly. The interviewer cared a lot about how I broke down the problem, not just the final answer.
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One question involved expected wait times for a train that runs every 10 minutes, compared with walking. The train took 5 minutes and walking took 10 minutes. The interviewer kept adding new factors and asked whether the expected wait time or overall travel time would increase or decrease, and why. It was very interactive.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Jane Street nel mese di dic 2025
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Only did the mathematical problem solving interview. No advanced technical knowledge required. Focused mainly on creativity within arithmetic and statistics questions. Focus more on showing your thought process than just solving the question since the interviewer is happy to help if needed.
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A train arrives at the station every 20 minutes. If you take 5 minutes to run and 10 minutes to walk, what is the expected wait time at the station?