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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 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.

GT is a top-5 engineering school in the US across many different disciplines, it's not just any public state school. A lot of places recruit heavily from them that would be less interested in other state schools (including most other state schools in GA).

EDIT:

Some context for people unfamiliar with GA: GA Tech, historically, was the public engineering university for the state. For other public universities with engineering programs, most of them were distance versions of GT with students transferring to GT for the last couple years into the 00s (changed by the mid-00s with some students finishing at the host university but graduating with a degree from GT). UGA has only had a College of Engineering since 2012. But prior to that, since the 1930s, UGA had no major engineering program outside of agricultural and a couple other things, with the primary focus of engineering education in the state being at GT.

Other schools had other focuses, but not engineering until very recently.

C’mon your counter example is that they recruit from Georgia Tech. How much recruiting does Jane Street do at UGA? George State? Spelman?

There's about four thousand four-year-degree-granting institutions in this country. How much recruiting should Jane Street do at all of them?

When I was college shopping, Georgia Tech was near the top of the list for CS. I think it was actually at the top for robotics.

sorry my list should've included some public schools georgia tech or cal berkeley. my point they would be more preferential towards top tech schools

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