Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Optiver (Amsterdam) nel mese di set 2020
Colloquio
As a first step, they have an online scheduler so you can set up your phone interview date and time. You will then be tasked in talking with HR, that didn't call on the appointed date, but one day later. She then tried spin it into "I hadn't noticed it was not today" (as if it were not her full-time job to do tens of these interviews per week), and didn't even bother to offer an apology for it. The conversation was the typical HR blablabla. They then set up a HackerRank homework assignment, involving theoretical OO questions and a couple of algorithmic exercises. The next stage involved talking with yet another HR guy for 45min and finally having another interview with a Software Engineer manager. There would have been then an "on-site" stage, but it turns out they're looking for you to guess what kind of questions you should have asked to demonstrate your motivation to work for a company that for all purposes at this point you still don't know anything about. They hire for the company, not for the team, so I really wonder what could I have asked that was specific enough to be of any worth at this stage of the interview process. As the company is large and teams (from what was described to me) have very different workflows, that's only something you could ask when talking with actual prospective team members. But oh well..
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HackerRank style questions. Going from easy to medium, I would say.
A bit anxiety inducing, there were two developers observing and asking questions. Real-time problem solving required, conducted on Hacker Rank virtually, video and mic enabled - quite nervewracking to say the least
I had one round, which was an online HackerRank test. I wasn’t able to pass all the test cases, and as a result, I did not progress to the next stage of the process.
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Optiver (Amsterdam)
Colloquio
A lot of interviews. Started off with a call, then some online tests. Then a technical interview. Then a live coding interview along with a architecture interview. Last step would have been final day interview but I did not get that far.
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How many bits do you need to store a number up to X. And how can you represent that.