Hudson River Trading Software Engineer interview experience

I was sent a pre-screen with two problems to complete within a short window, and one problem was Python-based while the other was JavaScript-based. It was less about deep algorithms and more about syntax and straightforward implementation.

Before the interviews even started, a hiring manager reached out to me, and the whole format felt relatively streamlined compared to other multi-round processes. After the coding pre-screen, I moved into follow-up discussions that still tested problem-solving, but they didn’t feel as math-heavy as some of the more quantitative paths I’d heard about.

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