Jane Street on Dwarkesh Podcast

There's not many institutions that have thought as hard as Jane Street about how to turn smart people into some of the most competent researchers and engineers in the world. This relies in part on an apprenticeship model where new hires are paired with senior mentors. But Jane Street also runs a bunch of classroom style lectures and hands on boot camps. These courses cover a range of topics, and they go pretty deep. There's one lecture that focuses on reverse engineering systems with tools like s trace and GDB and another that teaches you how to profile code down to the cache hierarchy level. Importantly, James Street designs these courses not just to teach the relevant object level skills, but also to impart the relevant tacit knowledge. For example, their week long neural net boot camp starts starts with general theory, but then quickly progresses to how to apply neural networks to trading. And here, they cover the specific obstacles that Jamestriders tend to encounter and the workarounds they've come up with to get around them. Jamestrory takes this sort of learning incredibly seriously. Every office has dedicated classroom space, and courses are prioritized as part of regular work. If you'd like to work at a place like this, Jane Street is hiring. You can check out their open roles at janestreet.com/dorkesh.