Hudson River Trading Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted May 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I remember two technical rounds that leaned heavily into C++ and systems-adjacent thinking.

In the first phone screen, I was asked C++ and Linux-related questions, and then the interviewer shifted into scenario-style reasoning—like figuring out how to ensure only 20 orders get placed to an exchange in a single second.

The second round involved an online coding component where the interviewer wrote a small C++ snippet and asked me to explain what it did and how many times special methods like constructors and copy constructors would run. After that, the same round asked me to write C code for atoi.

The process felt moderately challenging to difficult because it mixed reasoning with

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