Jane Street Capital: the trader paying its interns more than Keir Starmer

Secretive firm that has grown to rival Goldman Sachs is revealed to reward lowliest recruits with $250,000 salary

Sitting down for his internship interview at Jane Street Capital in the summer of 2013, the future crypto-billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried was presented with a stack of poker chips and playing cards. But this was no ordinary game.

Jane Street traders, renowned for their financial trading prowess, unveiled an evolving list of quirky rules, peppered with intriguing side bets, as they started to vet the potential recruit.