Hudson River Trading Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Oct 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews leaned very hard into systems fundamentals and the kind of “engineering knowledge” you can’t bluff.

After applying, I started with a phone screen where I talked through resume experience and then got hit with technical questions that felt grounded in OS concepts. In one version of the path, I also saw C++-adjacent trivia and STL knowledge during the engineer phone call, and they followed up on how I responded to gauge whether I actually understood the underlying reasoning.

Then I got more coding and technical evaluation that, overall, still read like systems + implementation depth. One of my rounds included an operating-systems design question paired with a medium BFS-style LeetCode

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