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Jane Street

Prop / Market Maker · Multi-asset market maker · New York City

One of the most prestigious and hardest trading interviews, probability, estimation, and live market-making games, judged on how you think.

Difficulty: ●●●●●Recruits in India

Jane Street trades ETFs, options, bonds, and crypto as a market maker, with a famous OCaml/functional-programming engineering culture. Its interviews are widely cited among the toughest in the industry.

The through-line is decision-making under uncertainty: they care more about how you reason, narrate, and update on new information than whether you nail a single number.

Roles they hire

Quant Trader · Quant Researcher · Software Engineer

Interview processas publicly reported

  1. 1

    Application & optional online test

    Human recruiter review (they state no AI resume screening); sometimes a quantitative online assessment, probability, combinatorics, expected value, estimation under time pressure.

  2. 2

    First technical screen

    ~30–60 min with a trader or researcher: probability, mental math, and brainteasers.

  3. 3

    Technical rounds

    Escalating difficulty, moving into hypothetical decision-making and risk-management games (EV, game theory).

  4. 4

    Final / superday

    Behavioral plus live market-making and trading-simulation games in real time.

What they test

Prep tips

  • Narrate your reasoning out loud and self-correct, they weight the process over the exact answer.
  • Drill EV and market-making intuition (fair value, spreads, updating on information) over raw arithmetic speed; read their published probability material.

India recruiting

No dedicated India trading office, but Jane Street recruits from top IITs (Bombay/Delhi/Madras) for roles based abroad (HK/London/NY). Campus recruiting: yes; local office: no.

Sources

Interview processes change and vary by role, office, and year. This guide reflects publicly reported experiences and is not affiliated with Jane Street.