Hudson River Trading Software Engineer interview experience

They gave me a long window, about two weeks, and I worked through four questions. I managed to complete half of them fully, but I couldn’t get the remaining questions to pass every test case, which left me feeling like I was close but not quite meeting their bar.

What made it more frustrating was how variable the experience felt afterward. I later saw how some people could score extremely high on the standardized assessment and still be rejected without much explanation. In my own case, I didn’t even get clear guidance on how my score translated, and it was hard to tell what the “right”