GoKawiilJane Street adds new interview rounds testing design skills and AI-assisted coding
Jane Street says it is trialing new software engineering interview formats for campus candidates, starting this summer. These rounds involve less hands-on code writing and more focus on software design, code quality verification, and using LLMs to produce code, while most rounds remain traditional coding interviews done without AI assistance.
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The change signals that Jane Street sees AI tools as increasingly embedded in day-to-day engineering work, shifting what skills are valuable from writing code to evaluating and directing it. By keeping the new formats loosely defined, the firm suggests it expects interview design itself to keep evolving alongside how engineers actually use AI on the job.
- Jane Street is piloting new interview rounds for campus software engineering candidates.
- New formats emphasize design judgment, code verification, and AI-assisted coding rather than pure hand-coding.
- Most interview rounds remain traditional and unassisted by LLMs for now.
Source: blog.janestreet.com, 2026-11-12
Published there as: “Jane Street – Our software engineering interviews are changing (a little)”
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