Hudson River Trading Software Engineer interview experience

What surprised me most was how much the decision seemed tied to academic ranking—CGPA and JEE Advanced rank were treated as the primary criteria, along with the test score. The impression I got was that if someone was ranked in the top 100, they were essentially guaranteed an interview regardless of how the test went.

It made the early stages feel less like a pure merit test and more like a gate based on prior outcomes. I didn’t reach an offer through this route, but I left with a clearer understanding of how tightly they filtered based on ranking rather than the interview process trying to