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Read the article, these are highly technical, generalized projects. That they were paid for by an investment firm and then released as OS means _we_ siphoned value out of the financial system.
If you think they are getting paid to generate OS projects you aren't thinking about this very hard.
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This seems fine. There are some schools where it is simply not worth allocating your finite amount of recruiting resources. It by no way means that there are not super smart people at those schools, just that the percentage of students that fit your hiring criteria is too low to justify spending time at those institutions.
it's probably more like if your school isn't an ivy, stanford, mit, whatever you're resume goes right in the trash. also that logic is super self perpetuating and I imagine could be used to justify other worse forms of discrimination (not saying at Jane Street but in general)
My college was a public state school (Georgia Tech). While it is a great school, it was public and affordable (could be done for nearly free in-state). But it definitely was not some super difficult to get into exclusive ivy club or the likes.
So it seems like they indeer attend a rather wide variety of schools, given the size of their company. But they aren't a mega giant like Microsoft/Amazon/etc. that can afford to directly send people to recruit from almost every school in the US, their headcount was under 1k total iirc, and significantly.
Jane Street discriminates based on what school you went to, during their hiring practices.
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it's probably more like if your school isn't an ivy, stanford, mit, whatever you're resume goes right in the trash. also that logic is super self perpetuating and I imagine could be used to justify other worse forms of discrimination (not saying at Jane Street but in general)
False. When I was in college, about 8 years ago, Jane Street not only hired from our school, they came to our career fair on regular. I interviewed with them myself at the time for an internship, but fumbled because my combinatorics knowledge was severely lacking at that time, and algo wasn't quite up to par either. My college was a public state school (Georgia Tech). While it is a great school, it was public and aff…
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Read the article, these are highly technical, generalized projects. That they were paid for by an investment firm and then released as OS means _we_ siphoned value out of the financial system.
>That they were paid for by an investment firm and then released as OS means _we_ siphoned value out of the financial system. If you think they are getting paid to generate OS projects you aren't thinking about this very hard.
So Jane Street’s profiting from this work is irrelevant, they paid for it and we have it.
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it's probably more like if your school isn't an ivy, stanford, mit, whatever you're resume goes right in the trash. also that logic is super self perpetuating and I imagine could be used to justify other worse forms of discrimination (not saying at Jane Street but in general)
False. When I was in college, about 8 years ago, Jane Street not only hired from our school, they came to our career fair on regular. I interviewed with them myself at the time for an internship, but fumbled because my combinatorics knowledge was severely lacking at that time, and algo wasn't quite up to par either. My college was a public state school (Georgia Tech). While it is a great school, it was public and aff…
Jane Street discriminates based on what school you went to, during their hiring practices.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This seems fine. There are some schools where it is simply not worth allocating your finite amount of recruiting resources. It by no way means that there are not super smart people at those schools, just that the percentage of students that fit your hiring criteria is too low to justify spending time at those institutions.
it's probably more like if your school isn't an ivy, stanford, mit, whatever you're resume goes right in the trash. also that logic is super self perpetuating and I imagine could be used to justify other worse forms of discrimination (not saying at Jane Street but in general)
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Read the article, these are highly technical, generalized projects. That they were paid for by an investment firm and then released as OS means _we_ siphoned value out of the financial system.
>That they were paid for by an investment firm and then released as OS means _we_ siphoned value out of the financial system. If you think they are getting paid to generate OS projects you aren't thinking about this very hard.
At the end of the day, they feed their hiring pipeline, interns get work experience and some cash, and we all get some genuinely interesting open source projects. Win/win/win.