Get to Know Us
Hear from Jane Streeters across departments and offices.
The people featured in these videos were excited to share what makes Jane Street a rewarding place to work. Whether in Trading & Research, HR & Recruiting, or Cybersecurity, everyone plays a key part in fostering our open and collaborative working culture.
While it’s hard to capture all the nuance of our firm in a series of short videos, we hope that they give you a real sense of who we are and what we do.
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Get to Know Us | Jane Street
I’m Andrew. I started at Jane Street in 2018. I work in the New York
office and I’m a part of the risk group within infrastructure.
Do I need experience in finance to apply?
I think it’s totally normal to not have finance experience. I think
Jane Street really focuses on training people with no finance
experience to sort of the business of Jane Street. And it’s sort of
expected that you come in as sort of a blank slate and learn a lot of
what you need to learn on the job.
Is there anything you would suggest I do to prepare for the interview process?
We really try to focus on how you, as a candidate, sort of work with
the interviewer, how you ask good questions, how you learn as the
interview goes on, and really how you approach a problem that’s
completely new to you. During the job, you will be faced with lots of
problems that are completely new to you and you have no idea what the
background is, but being able to approach problems systematically and
work with others collaboratively is super important.
What kind of projects do interns work on?
The types of projects that interns get to work on is actually largely
the same as the types of projects that full-timers get to work on.
It’s great because interns spend a lot of their summer learning, doing
a lot of formal learning, and the projects that they get to work on
really sort of reinforce the learning that they’re doing over the
summer. The projects themselves can span anything from sort of data
analysis projects, process improvement, process management,
information synthesis, how do we make Jane Street better? How do we
grow Jane Street as a business? How do we access new products and new
markets that Jane Street’s never traded before? All of these projects
are types of things that interns and full-timers in business
development get to work on.
What is the business development team like at Jane Street?
I do think business development gives you a lot of exposure to both
how we think about things at Jane Street and also how that intersects
with the outside world. Jane Street is a business that interacts with
many different counterparties and many different legal regimes and
it’s a very complicated web of relationships. Being able to understand
both what we want from Jane Street’s perspective, but also what the
world wants with respect to Jane Street is super important.
Understanding the different regulations and rules within different
jurisdictions, managing the different relationships they have with
banks and brokers and stuff like that is definitely super important
within the business development role.
I think what I love most about Jane Street is the people and the
culture. It’s a very intellectually engaged environment at Jane
Street. People love learning about new problems, whether they relate
to their day-to-day or not. People always love to learn about new
challenges that Jane Streeters are facing and what sorts of things
people are working on. It’s pretty infectious to be around that sort
of environment where everyone loves to learn. It really makes you more
curious and more sort of engaged with the work that you’re working on,
knowing that everyone else is just as engaged with their work.