Jane Street Careers, Benefits, Review
Jane Street is a global proprietary quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider that employs more than 2600 people in five offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, and Singapore. We are among the principal market-makers in 2020.
Great place to work
Pros
- great colleagues (smart and friendly) - had ability to choose what projects to work on - progress quickly and acquire responsibility soon - good work life balanceCons
- can't work from another country for more than 20 days a yearA closer look into the roles of trading and technology offers a sense of life at Jane Street.
Work at Jane Street is exciting and challenging. We trade in incredibly competitive, fast-paced environments, and feedback on successes and failures is quick and tangible. This allows for constant evaluation and improvement of our strategies and performance.
Games & Puzzles
We enjoy playing strategic and mathematical games to teach game theory and risk, as well as hone discipline, memory, and quant skills. In addition to organized tournaments, there are frequent chess, bridge, and poker games after the markets close. Our team includes nationally competitive contract bridge players and titled chess players. Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, Best Female Chess Player Judit Polgar, and three time World Series of Poker bracelet winner David Sklansky have visited Jane Street as guest speakers.
Although specific roles may require specific skills, there are common threads that run through all people at Jane Street.
- Honesty, both personal and intellectual
- The ability to work in a team while also being self-motivated on specific tasks
- Intellectual curiosity and the passion to find and build the tools to answer questions more efficiently and effectively.
- The ability and desire to learn from mistakes
- Comfort with thinking logically in a quantitative and probabilistic way
- A drive to improve and achieve
- Excellent, zero-premium health insurance (medical/dental/vision)
- Retirement benefits with company match
- Competitive holiday and vacation policies
- Daily catered breakfasts and restaurant-delivered lunch
- Fully stocked kitchens
- Private on-site gym (with lockers and showers)
- Bike storage (in NYC)
- 16 weeks of parental leave for primary caregivers at 100% salary, plus additional unpaid leave
- Emergency back-up childcare
- Additional week off to celebrate new marriage or domestic partnership
- Equipped mothers’ rooms for nursing mothers
- 90% tuition reimbursement for work-related continuing education
- 90% book reimbursement for work-related books (100% if you add them to the library)
We focus primarily on being a fun, challenging, and rewarding place to work. That’s driven by the quality and cohesiveness of the team, which is why our interview process is so arduous, and why such a large number of current employees are involved in choosing their colleagues.
Games & Puzzles
We enjoy playing strategic and mathematical games to teach game theory and risk, as well as hone discipline, memory, and quant skills. In addition to organized tournaments, there are frequent chess, bridge, and poker games after the markets close. Our team includes the Arimaa World Computer Champion and nationally competitive contract bridge players.
In a typical week, we have a class, one or two simulated trading events, and a game playing session.
Jane Street expanding fast as the average employee makes nearly $3m in profit
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