RejectedTechnical Screen

30 Minutes, Misread One Rule, No Time to Fix

Hudson River TradingSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

My HRT interview had the same question as this other post (the link I'm referring to is dropped here). Their bar is really high. In half an hour you need to understand the problem, explain the problem, explain your approach, write the code, explain the code, and run it. I went straight to the optimized solution: record the capacity in each of the four directions (up, down, left, right) for every…

Shared by a candidate · reported Aug 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.