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Prop / Market Maker · HFT / algorithmic market maker · New York City
An engineering-led HFT with one of the hardest coding bars in the industry, reports consistently rate it above FAANG.
HRT is a low-latency market maker where coding and algorithms dominate every engineering track. The bar is high: candidates repeatedly describe the coding rounds as harder than FAANG.
Math rounds pair with it, probability, statistics, and Markov processes under time pressure.
Roles they hire
Quant Researcher · Algo/Core Engineer · Software Engineer · Quant Trader
Interview processas publicly reported
- 1
Online assessment
HackerRank-style timed test, ~2–3 hard problems (LeetCode Medium–Hard, tight limits) blending coding with quantitative reasoning.
- 2
Technical phone screen(s)
Split into (a) math/probability (EV, conditional probability, brainteasers) and (b) live coding in a shared editor.
- 3
Onsite (~5 rounds)
Deeper coding (C++/systems for Algo/Core Engineer), probability/statistics/Markov under pressure, strategy games, and Python data-analysis rounds.
What they test
Prep tips
- ▸Grind LeetCode Medium/Hard and Project Euler under strict time pressure (simulation, combinatorics, clean data processing in C++/Python); narrate while coding.
- ▸Pair coding fluency with quant fundamentals (EV, conditional probability, Markov chains).
India recruiting
Mumbai office (BKC). Targeted IIT campus recruiting is likely but was not explicitly confirmed in public sources.
Sources
Interview processes change and vary by role, office, and year. This guide reflects publicly reported experiences and is not affiliated with Hudson River Trading (HRT).