Hudson River Trading Software Engineer interview experience

I remember getting questions that weren’t just algorithmic—they dug into how operating systems actually behave, including implementation-level ideas, and how low-level details affect what your code does under the hood. There were also discussions that tied back to data structures and networking, plus a deeper follow-up on my prior project and what exactly I’d done.

On top of that, I hit a more fundamentals-style coding round focused on C++ concepts like pointers and references. Even when the logic wasn’t the most complex, the bar felt like it was less about waving hands and more about being