Signals and Threads

An inside look at Jane Street's tech internship with Jeanne Van Briesen, Matt Else, and Grace Zhang

Nov 6, 2020

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Jane Street's Internship Structure

02:10

Is There a Balance Between Prioritization and Productivity?

02:33

Interns and Full-Timers - What's the Difference?

02:28

Introduction

2min

Jane Street

2min

Insight

2min

Jane Street's Internship Structure

2min

How Hard Did You Acclimate to the Tools?

2min

Actful Projects - Can You Tell Us About One of Your Projects?

2min

How to Increase a Trader's Limits?

3min

RFQ Dev

2min

The Human Element Is Incredibly Important to Jane Street Trading

2min

10.

The Challenge of Getting My Head Around RFQs

2min

11.

Doing Code Review Can Teach You a Lot

2min

12.

Internship: Incredom

2min

13.

How Did You Come Up With a Good API Design?

2min

14.

OCaml PPX - What's the Process Like?

2min

15.

What Was the Transition Like?

2min

16.

How Does Your Internship Compare to Working Full Time at Jane Street?

2min

17.

How Did You Find the Transition to a Full Timer?

2min

18.

Why Aren't Web UIs Allowed for Interns?

2min

19.

COVID and the Intern Project at Jane Street

2min

20.

Interns and Full-Timers - What's the Difference?

2min

21.

How Did You Choose the Teams That You Wanted to Work For?

2min

22.

The Jane Street Experience of Being an Intern

2min

23.

The Difference Between Jane Street and Regent's Code Base

2min

24.

The Goal of Zero Product

2min

25.

Building New Things and Extending Existing Things

2min

26.

How Important Is the Communication With Traders?

2min

27.

Is There a Balance Between Prioritization and Productivity?

3min

28.

Internships - Is There Anything You Wish We Could Change?

2min

29.

Is There a Block of Time to Code?

2min

30.

What Do You Like About the Internship?

2min

31.

Is the Internship Syndrome a Real Thing?

2min

32.

The Imposter Syndrome - I'm Just Saying Nice Things

2min

In this week's episode, the season 1 finale, Ron speaks with Jeanne, Matt, and Grace, three former tech interns at Jane Street who have returned as full-timers. They talk about the experience of being an intern at Jane Street, the types of projects that interns work on, and how they've found the transition to full-time work.

You can find the transcript for this episode along with links to things we discussed on our website.

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