Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Optiver (Amsterdam) nel mese di giu 2016
Colloquio
Very nice procedure. Send in resume. Get invited for three math tests. Phone interview. On site interviews with HR and traders.
I want to give you some advice. Really practice mental math. Not just math based on paper but also when someone asks you in person.
Furthermore prepare some badic Statistics in particular EV, and be quick with that. Furthermore make sure you are accurate in the interviews and do not make too fast decisions of you are not sure. Its better to wait longer then make a mistake. In the end that is what made me not get an offer.
For the rest: come in relaxed and dont be stressed. Be focussed, but dont let stress take over. Do some mock interviews with similar questions in order to get used to it. Also dont think they will ask the most hard questions. The brainteasers were quite doable, the hard part was answering them under pressure.
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)
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Optiver (Amsterdam)
Colloquio
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.