Hudson River Trading Software Engineer interview experience

Posted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call, I had a short technical round where the interviewer moved very slowly and I had to take notes while the problem was being delivered, just to make sure I didn’t miss anything before I could fully understand what they were asking.

It felt like the expectation was that once I finally got it, I’d be able to execute cleanly and essentially “one-shot” the solution within the tight time window.

From there I ended up doing another CoderPad-style coding screen on the engineer side, but the biggest theme early on was how quickly the conversation turned toward the core of the role and what track I should be on. I also had a separate phone-screen expectation-setting call where they described it as a 30-minute CoderPad session, with the recruiter walking through different engineering paths and steering me into the right

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