Hudson River Trading

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience

November 23, 2021

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The online assessment consisted of three questions.

The duration was about three hours.

You could choose between two different languages, Python or C++, depending on your application.

They mentioned that C++ would open up more opportunities.

Questions

The coding questions were likely of medium to hard difficulty on LeetCode.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 19 interview experiences for the Hudson River Trading Software Engineer (Internship) role in United States.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

Hudson River Trading's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive37%

Neutral47%

Negative16%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Hudson River Trading's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in United States.

Hudson River Trading Work Experiences

Smart People, Tough Belonging

Core Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Above average pay, good benefits (unlimited drinks, breakfast, lunch, dinner with some budget), really smart people, and a collaborative culture. Also good work-life balance.

Cons: Sometimes I feel very great peer pressure. People around are often too smart, and you feel like you somehow don't belong to this company (e.g., imposter syndrome).

Smart People, Tough Belonging

Core Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Above average pay, good benefits (unlimited drinks, breakfast, lunch, dinner with some budget), really smart people, and a collaborative culture. Also good work-life balance.

Cons: Sometimes I feel very great peer pressure. People around are often too smart, and you feel like you somehow don't belong to this company (e.g., imposter syndrome).

Decent Perks, Toxic Growth

Algorithm Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

September 11, 2025

Pros: Ok-ish compensation and pretty good perks

Cons: Career growth is meh and increasingly toxic.

Decent Perks, Toxic Growth

Algorithm Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

September 11, 2025

Pros: Ok-ish compensation and pretty good perks

Cons: Career growth is meh and increasingly toxic.

I've programmed on many of the teams at HRT

Algorithm Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: People are ridiculously smart, compensation is highly competitive, and there are great engineering practices. There is virtually no bureaucracy.

Cons: The interview can be very difficult; it's hard work to measure up to your peers.

I've programmed on many of the teams at HRT

Algorithm Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: People are ridiculously smart, compensation is highly competitive, and there are great engineering practices. There is virtually no bureaucracy.

Cons: The interview can be very difficult; it's hard work to measure up to your peers.

Smart People, Tough Belonging

Core Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Above average pay, good benefits (unlimited drinks, breakfast, lunch, dinner with some budget), really smart people, and a collaborative culture. Also good work-life balance.

Cons: Sometimes I feel very great peer pressure. People around are often too smart, and you feel like you somehow don't belong to this company (e.g., imposter syndrome).

5.0
Smart People, Tough Belonging
Core Engineer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
August 8, 2021
Pros: Above average pay, good benefits (unlimited drinks, breakfast, lunch, dinner with some budget), really smart people, and a collaborative culture. Also good work-life balance.
Cons: Sometimes I feel very great peer pressure. People around are often too smart, and you feel like you somehow don't belong to this company (e.g., imposter syndrome).

Decent Perks, Toxic Growth

Algorithm Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

September 11, 2025

Pros: Ok-ish compensation and pretty good perks

Cons: Career growth is meh and increasingly toxic.

2.0
Decent Perks, Toxic Growth
Algorithm Engineer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
September 11, 2025
Pros: Ok-ish compensation and pretty good perks
Cons: Career growth is meh and increasingly toxic.

I've programmed on many of the teams at HRT

Algorithm Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: People are ridiculously smart, compensation is highly competitive, and there are great engineering practices. There is virtually no bureaucracy.

Cons: The interview can be very difficult; it's hard work to measure up to your peers.

5.0
I've programmed on many of the teams at HRT
Algorithm Engineer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
March 22, 2017
Pros: People are ridiculously smart, compensation is highly competitive, and there are great engineering practices. There is virtually no bureaucracy.
Cons: The interview can be very difficult; it's hard work to measure up to your peers.

Hudson River Trading Interview Questions

Add Edges to Make Degrees of All Nodes Even

You're given a graph; your goal is to add edges to it so that every node has an even degree. Find the minimum number of edges to add to achieve this.

Convert Integer to the Sum of Two No-Zero Integers

Given an integer, you need to express it as the sum of two positive integers, neither of which contains the digit zero. Find and return any such pair of no-zero integers.

ArraysGreedy Algorithms

Detect Pattern of Length M Repeated K or More Times

Determine if a pattern of a certain length repeats itself consecutively in an array at least a given number of times. Specifically, check for repeating subarrays.

ArraysTwo PointersSliding Windows

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