Code Jam to I/O for Women 2018

Lim Li took part in Google Code Jam for Women 2018 on 17 Feb 2018, Singapore time 11 pm to 1.30 am.

She came in 1st out of over 800 contestants worldwide.

Full Results

Prizes: Those ranked in the top 150 scores of the Contest are eligible to receive a free non-transferable registration to Google I/O 2018 and a reimbursement for travel costs to Google I/O 2018 up to US$500.

Admission to NUS in Academic Year 2018

Lim Li has accepted the admission offer, as well as offer of NUS Merit Scholarship. Though she has been offered a double degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, most likely she will be pursuing just a single degree in Computer Science.

Internship at Jane Street

Jane Street, a Quantitative Trading firm with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong, is known to pay attractively to their Interns. Each year, many undergraduates majoring in Math and/or Computing apply for Jane Street's summer internship.

Types of Internship (from Jane Street's Internship website):

Trading Interns
Work with experienced traders to find and analyze arbitrage strategies, hedge risk, and search for new opportunities. Trading interns usually split their summer between two different trading desks, and spend a week in one of our overseas offices.

Developer Interns
Work with experienced dev mentors on projects that are wide-ranging and have real impact. Learn about trading through classes and build bots that compete on a simulated exchange. Past interns have built protocol compilers, hacked on the internals of our concurrency library, and built real-time visualization tools. Many intern projects are subsequently released as open-source.

Business Development Interns
Work with our business development, compliance, and operations teams to understand the regulatory and operational frameworks of various financial markets, and how they impact the implementation of the firm’s systems, processes, and trading strategies.  Business development interns rotate through projects and mentors over the summer, and spend a week in our London office.

Research Interns
Construct mathematical models, learn about relevant academic research, explore new ideas, and execute studies using Jane Street’s massive research infrastructure.


Past interns have reported that the best part of the internship is the rich educational experience. Every week brings a mix of finance theory and technology classes, mock trading sessions, and guest speakers, on top of careful one-on-one mentoring with experienced traders and technologists.

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According to Glassdoor, the average monthly pay in US$ for a Software Engineer Intern is as follows:

Jane Street: $10,416
Facebook: $8,000
Amazon: $7,632
Twitter: $7,054
Microsoft: $6,816
Apple: $6,700
Google: $5,878