Hardware Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Optiver with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Hardware Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Optiver overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Optiver as a Hardware Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
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Phone call - behavioral interview. The interviewer voice was cutting and whenever I would point it out, she wouldn't even repeat the question. But the questions were easy, usual HR questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which environment was your favorite to work in and why
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Optiver (Chicago, IL) in Oct 2023
Interview
Had a coding round and technical round, but got rejected in the technical round. It was pretty hard. Applied to the main website and was contacted by a recruiter with a link to the coding assessment. The overall procedure has 3 rounds
Coding, technical interview and final round of technical interview
The first step in our interview process is an online coding test. Please note it typically takes candidates 1-3 hours to complete. Once you start the test, you have 24 hours to submit it. Following this email you will receive a link to the test from HackerRank. There are further instructions and details on the link. If you do not receive it within an hour of getting this e-mail, please check your spam folder. If it isn't there, write us back and we will look into it.