Hudson River Trading Software Engineer interview experience

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FrancePosted Jan 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process started with an OA that felt manageable.

For the next interview, the overall experience was harsher than I expected: the interviewer seemed very uninterested and spent most of the time grilling me. It was unusual because there wasn’t any actual coding and there wasn’t a camera—just a deep dive into system design and low-level material.

I was asked about topics like operating systems, compilers, C++, and memory. It felt less like a friendly technical conversation and more like being tested on depth, with less warmth from the interviewer.

Another round I went through followed a different format: a phone screen without a camera where

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