HR and screening were well organised and professional. The interview with the hiring manager was a different story. He joined five minutes late and clearly hadn't reviewed my CV or had it open. Despite my background, he spent time explaining fundamental financial concepts as if I were new to the field, and the tone throughout was condescending. After I got parts of two coding questions wrong, I was rejected on the spot and told the company's engineers "could answer much harder questions at 3AM without any problem."
I applied online. I interviewed at TradingHub in Feb 2026
Interview
Had a 30 min HR interview, rejected for being "underqualified in skills". He asked about what I would to do reduced latency, I said a bunch of stuff off the top of my head related to client-server performance, although I think he wanted more low-level stuff, I wouldn't know since in any case he didn't say anything apart from "ok sure" after presumably not hitting whatever key words he had in front of him. Rather different process from most big tech companies (I was in the hiring committee stage at G**gle at the time, which I ended up accepting) where the actual engineers do the technical screenings and HR just does scheduling and feedback.
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at TradingHub (London, England) in Mar 2023
Interview
First stage of a screening call with the HR Director, followed by 45 minute video call with the same person, shortly after followed by in-person interview with the HR team (advisor and outgoing BP) and then the Chief People Officer