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Hudson River TradingSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Apr 2026

Both rounds were the interviewer dictating the problem out loud, so I had to take notes — miss one parameter and you're in trouble. Round 1: a one-dimensional array, N players walking to the right. A watcher starts at an initial position and watches the players. A player being watched can't move. The watcher switches direction according to a given list of timestamps. Given a termination time T, f…

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