Intership applicants have rated the interview process at Optiver with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 44% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Intership roles take an average of 3 days to get hired, when considering 9 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 Intership according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
IQ intelligence test: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
Personality test: 17%
Skills test: 17%
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Applied their eu office. Did a very long online test with programming and games. Followed by an hr interview. A lot of personal questions. Didn't proceed to the next round.
Quick maths test, need accuracy and speed and different games, then hr interview and then technical interview with probability questions such as cards question, dice question, and other probability questions
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Dice question, probability question, mostly cards question, or football game
interviewed with them recently for an FPGA role, and had four back-to-back sessions of interviews:
1st: reviewing the hacker rank responses and how I can improve/optimize the code
2nd: By far the hardest one. Asked to design a system for trading. Inputs are a customers trade hash and a price, along with that stocks current price. Only initiate the trade when the stock drops below the customer’s price. The design is relatively straightforward, the follow up questions for optimizing for latency and throughput has me stumped. They also ask questions on what you think the latency of your design is (in us/ns), and thereby the maximum frequency you could use.
3rd: questions about your resume and past experiences. My assumption is they were trying to get a gauge of working with others, my response to difficult problems, my ability to work independently and leadership.
4th: wrap-up HR interview just speaking about logistics