Internship Interview Experiences

Interview with 2 engineers for about 50 min. Asked me to describe the architecture of a system I worked on, that was my capstone REST API. Then some behavioral stuff about my biggest failure and conflict with supervisors. And then had me describe my personal brand in five words, weirdest interview question I've ever gotten.

one of the best interview processes I've been through, pair programming was chill and the engineer was super helpful not adversarial at all and life story was actually kind of nice to do. I ended up declining because I got a US offer that paid way more but I'd come back and interview at amazon again in a heartbeat, they seem to care about who you are as a person.

Big group meeting where they gave an overview of Jane Street and the internship program and then split us into smaller groups for individual interviews. HR plus the manager had behavioral questions. They also made us do this Thomas International psychometric test, like 20 minutes of pattern matching and personality stuff.

OA was standard medium difficulty coding problems and the work simulation was kind of intuitive if you've read about their Leadership Principles beforehand. the behavioral section of the final interview goes deep on LP stuff, wanted to know about a time showing ownership and really wanted a strong specific example. the coding part was fine but having weak LP stories is enough to get rejected even if your technical skills are solid, prep your behavioral stories people it's not optional here lol

Super relaxed one 30 min call with someone from the team who wanted to know about past experiences they just told me about the team culture and asked which work experience was my favourite.

Round 1 with a consultant was fine, got through the case and the fit felt natural. Round 2 with a partner was harder. Case was a retail chain deciding whether to close underperforming stores and the math got messy. Partner also was asking about a time I had to influence someone without authority, very common Bain culture question so prep that.