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Re:Jane Street – Our software engineering interviews are cha... by floathub on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:37AM (#50470105)
Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to imply anything nefarious on your part (or anyone else's part). It's just odd that a single financial firm keeps coming up.
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Re:Jane Street – Our software engineering interviews are cha... by Avicebron on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:41PM (#50471118)
OCaml like a lot of niche functional programming languages has a lot of weight on HN. Or used to for many many years, mostly before LLMs. Jane street is single-handedly keeping OCaml alive and in use in real applications and as such they get a lot of credence.

Whether you agree with what they do or not, they have had a sort of mystique about them (tons of money, quant vests, _and_ a niche functional programming language as a daily driver??? Sign me up!) that HN likes.

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