Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Optiver
Colloquio
First online screening test - 8 min calculations
Then behavioral phone interview with HR - go through resume and why trader, why Optiver.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Can someone give me an example of how to answer the question "Make a market on the number of streets in Manhattan" (I made it up. I'm not sure about how to make the initial "wide" bid/ask spread and then gradually shrink it, How do you interact with the interviewer with a question like this, specifically? Thanks!!)
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.