Hudson River Trading Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

CanadaPosted Jan 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter-style step, and scheduling moved quickly once they reached out.

After that, I had a 40-minute technical call with an engineer. The questions were pretty grounded: algorithm and data structure topics, plus OS fundamentals and C++. The interviewer’s tone was friendly, and the whole thing felt professional rather than adversarial.

It didn’t turn into a long multi-round gauntlet from my perspective, but it still followed the usual gating flow—an initial coding step and then phone screens focused on core technical knowledge. When I applied, I also had to do an online assessment, and I remember that the process took weeks to land the first screen.

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