1p3a Experience · Sep 2025

Jane Street SRE Technical Phone Screen Featuring Rate Limiting Algorithm

SWE Phone Screen
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It's basically writing the algorithm on paper. The problem is essentially a rate-limiting problem. Given a list of IP access log lines with IP address and timestamp, flag the IP addresses that access

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It's basically writing the algorithm on paper. The problem is essentially a rate-limiting problem. Given a list of IP access log lines with IP address and timestamp, flag the IP addresses that access too frequently within any fixed time window.

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This is a candidate experience report from a jane street interview for a swe role during the phone screen round reported in 2025.

It covers the following topics: Rate Limiter .