Re:Jane Street – Our software engineering interviews are cha...
by keithnz on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:56PM
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If you are employing someone to build software with AI, then interview that way.
I think what I'm looking for these days is people with a technical mindset and also can think strategically. So its not Yolo prompting, but creating an engineered environment for creating software for a particular purpose.
So if you want a good AI Engineer you want to test that can address the following things (not exactly, or everything, but they should be covering a lot of these things in some form) :-
- Define goals
- Distributing/Managing work in a team
- Establish guardrails
- Build feedback loops
- Use multiple agents, spanning out AI then recombining
- Setting up Verification
- Evaluating Engineering (Security, Architecture, Code, Performance, Deployment, Monitoring )
- Set it up that the whole process improves itself
- Understanding Domains
- Mitigations for an AI outage.
I think what I'm looking for these days is people with a technical mindset and also can think strategically. So its not Yolo prompting, but creating an engineered environment for creating software for a particular purpose.
So if you want a good AI Engineer you want to test that can address the following things (not exactly, or everything, but they should be covering a lot of these things in some form) :-