Hudson River Trading Software Engineer interview experience

Posted May 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My early stages started with an OA that was medium difficulty.

After that, I went into a probability-and-stats video interview, and I struggled enough that I felt the interviewer wasn’t very keen on helping as I got stuck. When the rejection came a few days later, it didn’t feel totally unexpected given how that video round went.

I also had an interview lined up later for a more ops-dev / experienced SWE style role, and I expected a similar kind of focus on technical depth rather than generic coding. The overall theme across that journey was that the stages after the initial OA were where it really turned into hard-to-recover territory, especially when

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