Technical Screen

A Watcher-and-Players Puzzle in the Technical Screen

Hudson River TradingSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

This is the problem the interviewer described to me verbally during the technical screen, done in a coderpad environment. They also gave an example along with it. There is a game with multiple players. The road starts at position 0 and ends at position L. Each player has a starting position, and players can only move to the right, one unit per second. There is a watcher, starting at position W, i…

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