Screening, then hacker rank coding questions and usual optiver 5 round online assessment. coding questions consisted of 1 object oriented question and 2 backtesting and trading questions, involving calculating p and l and sharpe ratio
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
backtest trading strategy, compute p and l and sharpe ratio
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Optiver
Colloquio
Passed Multiple Rounds.
First was a long OA with coding and maths questions.
Then HR
Then technical interview with a quant researcher.
Then a data challenge then i had to present the results of my data challenge.
Failed at this round
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Markov and coin tosses questions.
Probability that a table with 3 legs places randomly on a circle doesn't fall.
Questions about what would happens if features were correleated, why this model not another one, why this hyperparameter. difference ridge vs lasso. difference supervised vs unsupervised
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite segnalazione di un dipendente. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Optiver (Amsterdam) nel mese di nov 2025
Colloquio
OA, HR interveiw, Technical Interview, Take home assignment, Final round interviws (one HR one tech discussing take home). OA can be practised on various websites online. HR screen focussed on team work a lot. Technical was not too difficult, I may have just lucked out with the questions. Final round discussed ML techniques and their assumptions
2:30 hr OA contains coding probability game and quick math. Then a market making game round. Need to be quick. Then will be another market making game round. Both asking questions to make market.