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by rr888 1263 days ago
Its kinda sad though being a great company and the only thing people know you for is high salaries. Anything else good about the company?
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emptybits 1263 days ago
Jane Street is responsible for the Signals and Threads podcast[1], which I always enjoy. They also contribute a lot to the OCaml language, standard libraries, and do a great job of explaining why OCaml is a great language and paradigm. I've learned a lot because of Jane Street's sharings.

I have no connection or interest in Jane Street but this sure gives me a positive impression of the company.

[1] https://signalsandthreads.com/

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nequo 1263 days ago
Yaron Minsky, the host of Signals and Threads, is also one of the two authors of Real World OCaml[1] which is a good resource on the language.

[1] https://dev.realworldocaml.org/

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caddemon 1263 days ago
For anyone that did competition math in HS one of the two authors of the main Art of Problem Solving books is also high up at Jane Street, on the trading side. JS sponsors stuff like math prize for girls now.

Obviously there's a potential recruiting benefit to funding contests and posting monthly puzzles and whatnot, but I still think it's a cool vibe that not a lot of other companies have.

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