Hudson River Trading Software Engineer interview experience

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Chicago, ILPosted Jul 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied through the Hudson River Trading website and ended up doing an online assessment fairly quickly.

Most of what I did was coding on a platform like Codility: three algorithm questions with a single time box (around a couple hours), and the test wasn’t proctored. The whole experience felt very different from typical LeetCode for me—one question was especially “troll”-ish, and the platform itself made it annoying to test and iterate.

After I submitted, I heard back fast—about a day—just to be told I wasn’t moving forward. The assessment was the main hurdle in my timeline, and when I think about it, I still feel like accuracy and edge cases mattered more than speed. I came away feeling like

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