Hudson River Trading Software Engineer interview experience

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United KingdomPosted Nov 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My phone interview focused heavily on Linux and low-level systems topics.

A lot of what I was asked sounded like internal operational knowledge—things around memory management and the kinds of process behavior you’d expect in a performance-sensitive environment. It wasn’t paced like a quick chat; it felt like a deliberate technical check, and the interviewer took a slower rhythm than I was used to. I didn’t get much feedback during the call.

After that, the questions got more intense, and the overall feel turned into something like a rapid escalation: the conversation started moving slower and then quickly turned tricky and more difficult. In that environment,

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