Trading Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Optiver with 3.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Trading Intern roles take an average of 8 days to get hired, when considering 8 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 Trading Intern according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
IQ intelligence test: 22%
Skills test: 22%
Personality test: 11%
One on one interview: 11%
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a very typical intern interview, just ask u some normal question about ur background and why trading why the company
only general behaviour question, nothing about math or tech for the first round interview
Tough but somewhat revisable, lots of probability and game theory oriented questions. Better to understand the intuition than memorising brainteasers though, some non typical/curveball questions included. Some behavioiral parts as well.
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Question 1
EV of a dice roll game where you get the sum of the two dice but 0 if the sides are the same.
There were many different mini games that did not immediately appear relevant to trading. The games during the interview appeared to measure confidence, technical skill, and how risk averse the candidate was.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Rolling a fair die 1-6, probability of getting each number exactly once.
Mental math assessment, rapid fire market making virtual interview mostly on Fermi estimations, virtual aptitude assessment with HR followed by final day of interviews on betting strategies and making markets.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You and N other players are each dealt a number and bet on the average taking turns and going around many times. What is your strategy? How does it change if everyone knows the distributions the numbers were sampled from?