Hudson River Trading Software Engineer interview experience

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United KingdomPosted Jun 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was a timed online assessment made up of four LeetCode-style questions at a medium-to-hard level, with a strict two-hour limit.

I felt like I’d need the same pace I’ve practiced for competitive coding, and the pressure showed—this wasn’t the kind of test where you could slowly “work it out.”

After that, I had phone interviews that were also very structured. The first one was stats and probability, and later there was coding. The probability round leaned into things like expected value style thinking and distribution behavior—central limit theorem came up for me, plus a bit of quick mental math and questions that involved heavier tails. I was surprised how much the interviewer would help if I struggled, which kept the

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