Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite l'università. La procedura ha richiesto 2 giorni. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Optiver (Toronto, ON) nel mese di set 2015
Colloquio
They came to our campus and did an info session, candidates that were interested in the position were asked to take a 8-minute 80 questions math test (only + - x /, very hard to complete 100%). Right after the info session I was told that I got selected for a formal interview on the next day.
On the second day, I did interview with HR, very easy, asked about why I wanted to be a trader, why do I want to join this particular company. Things got tough with the technical interview, it was all math brain-teasers questions (what day would it be in 10 or 1000 years). They expect you to solve it in a quick and accurate manner.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
How many levels can you build with 52 cards? (a deck of card)
EV of throwing a dice, EV of the sum of two dices after you throw 1 time, 400 times. How would you make a market based on that?
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.