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kevinliu92Jul 1, 2026

HRT phone screen, got cooked by a problem I couldn't finish (Rejected)

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User-ky858Jul 1, 2026

That watcher problem is brutal. I got something similar and also ran out of time. The edge cases on the direction reversals alone ate up like 15 minutes.

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User-nz1zkJul 2, 2026

Got rejected from a different round a few months back. The next-day rejection at least saves you from waiting. Small mercies.

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devanshgupta7Jul 1, 2026

Not surprised. HRT basically wants you to produce production-quality C++ in under an hour with no test cases. The bar is just not LC prep.

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User-bqemlJul 1, 2026

How many YOE? Curious if they're filtering at this round heavily for new grads.

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kevinliu92Jul 1, 2026

NG, 0 YOE. Still applying to HFT even though I clearly can't finish 45-min implementation problems in 45 minutes lol.

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zhangyifan03Jul 1, 2026

Same experience here. The oral problem delivery completely threw me off. By the time I finished writing down the details I had lost 5 minutes already.

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kevinliu92Jul 1, 2026

Yeah the no-shared-doc thing is rough. I expected CoderPad with a problem written out. Getting it read to you while you're supposed to be thinking is just unfair tbh.

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