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User-hqwy7Aug 21, 2026

Point72 HFT onsite, one round, one interviewer, and I walked out knowing it wasn't going anywhere well before it even ended

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priyashah7Aug 22, 2026

the array template with concurrent access is no joke as a live design question, respect for getting through it at all

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jacobmiller2000Aug 21, 2026

did you get any sense of why, or just silence after

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User-fw2qfAug 22, 2026

straight up nothing, recruiter just sent the standard rejection template

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rohan.verma3Aug 21, 2026

sounds like a vibe thing more than a skills thing honestly, sucks but that's how some of these onsites go

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User-lozpoAug 21, 2026

HFT interviews are always a coin flip like that tbh, seen this happen to people who nailed everything

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gracewang0912Aug 22, 2026

mmap and TLB questions in the same round is wild, that's a lot of systems depth for one hour

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