jane street quant trader offer. used cluely for 4 of the 6 rounds. saving you the dms.
graduated cs/math undergrad last year. spent 8 months grinding for quant. four firms rejected me at the final. jane street pulled me back for a re-interview because one of the partners liked my approach on a poker hand i lost. ran the full loop again. signed yesterday.
quant twitter is going to lose its mind so let me get ahead of it.
round by round.
hackerrank oa. cluely on. 4 problems, 90 mins. one was a dp problem i wanted the state transition for fast. overlay surfaced it. i typed and tested. 100.
phone screen, probability + brain teasers. cluely on. classic puzzles get pattern-matched in 3 seconds. novel ones get a clean decomposition. i still did the math, i still argued it, the tool just kept the framing on screen.
superday r1, mental math. cluely off. too fast for an overlay. you score what you score.
superday r2, market making game. cluely off. interactive, partner across the table moving bids and asks, no glances possible. did it clean.
superday r3, probability + stats. cluely back on. partner walked a martingale through and asked me to extend. overlay had conditional expectation framing up before i wrote the setup. did the algebra, partner said "good intuition."
superday r4, fit. cluely on. star structure on screen. i don't prep behaviorals anymore. the overlay categorizes the question and surfaces the right story from my prep doc inside 5 seconds.
so cluely on 4 rounds, off on 2. the 2 it couldn't help on are the ones where it physically can't, too fast, too interactive. on the rest it was the difference between hitting and missing.
now the part you're going to downvote.
signing for 425 base plus a guaranteed sign-on, target year-one in the high sixes. cluely is 30 bucks a month. 360 a year. the offer is worth more in 3 weeks than cluely costs in a century. the math is arithmetic.
4 firms told me i hadn't earned it when i was clean. the fifth one paid me 425. i don't care which version they think they hired. they're getting the one that ships.
cheat. nobody is reading this and giving up the subscription so you can lose your fifth final with your integrity intact.