Hudson River Trading Quantitative Researcher interview experience

I didn’t meet a recruiter until later, so the early part of the process felt like a straight shot into evaluation.

After that, I went through multiple online rounds that were math and coding heavy. The interviews were held on Zoom, and the questioning felt structured around progressing difficulty. In my first substantive interview, I remember spending time going through my resume, then jumping into probability and stats questions that required more than just plugging values—I had to explain intuition and reasoning. Another time, the interviews felt less interactive, more like a set of