Hudson River Trading Quantitative Trader interview experience

After a recruiter touchpoint, I ended up with technical rounds where probability and strategy questions came up early, and the sessions were intense enough that it didn’t feel like I could “wing it.”

One round focused on building and validating an optimal strategy in a game with dice. I first developed the strategy and then had to live through a code-based validation step to check that the approach was consistent. Another technical session went even more directly into strategy: I was asked to derive an optimal Baccarat strategy, walking through the steps end to end. That part took about an