Candidatei-me online. O processo levou 2 meses. Fui entrevistado pela Optiver (Londres, Inglaterra) em nov. de 2024
Entrevista
Online assessment: Probability, Games, Numbers guesstimate
Round 2 (after the online assessment): HR round (basic behavioural questions: why Optiver, why trading, biggest strength, etc). After the next rounds (which test mostly market making, some brainteasers/ Fermi problem), there is the super day at their office where I had interacted with several people: (more sessions of) market making games, HR + trader --> both evaluate the fit for the job, job shadowing (all this from 9am to around 4pm).
People were friendly. They are there to test you, so make sure that you give your best.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
HR: why the firm, biggest strength, weakness, walk me through your background, etc
Interactions with traders: Russian roulette games, Fermi problem
Advice for market making games: be fast & accurate + ok to give an estimate. If you have a mistake during the game, don't be stuck, just move forward
spent about 1.5 months pretty much purely dedicated to preparing for interviews for all the pre-penultimate programs (Optiver, IMC, JS, SIG, Citadel, etc). I used these resources:
Green book (Really good starter but I got bored of it after a few weeks)
EverythingQuant (Went through literally every single interview prep question, went through the interview guides, and completed the probability course just to make sure I covered all bases)
Briefly read through this guide
Watched coding Jesus in my spare time (not sure if this helped directly lmao but he’s a great creator and very informative)
Mental math test, beat the odds, online puzzle like games etc online, brain teasers during physical interview and a behavioral interview where they want to assess how competitive and assertive you are.
OA was weird and hard. there was only three sections (i think) this year compared to 5 last year. questions are weird and I don't know how they can judge your ability base on that.