Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Optiver
Entrevista
1.Numerical Test: it is quite demanding, but it is easy to get the minimum score to pass.
2.HR Interview: they want to know about you and also they want to assess if you have the minimum knowledge of where you're stepping into, like what's market making, recent news that impacted the market, the main indexes, why do you want to be a trader...
3.Technical interview: market making game, brainteasers, probability and mental math.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
-brainteasers: you have a 6l bottle and a 4l bottle, how do you do to get 5l?
-probability: in a tennis match, you and your opponent are tied with 30 points, you have a probability 0.6 of making a point and the opponent 0.4, what is your probability of winning? And how much it'll change if we make the probabilities 0.9/0.1?
-mental math: 2/17 with 4 decimal digits, multiplication of 3 digits numbers
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 1 semana. Acudí a una entrevista en Optiver (Sídney) en abr 2022
Entrevista
Consisted of an initial basic quantitative assessment, a hackerrank assessment with probability, logic and coding problems, and a behavioural interview as the last stage I reached. This interview seems to expect some well rehearsed answers and certainly aren't looking for conversation to get to know you - this is to learn how much you know about trading, and how compatible your skills are to the work
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Example of a fast-paced environment, why you would make a good trader, your interests etc.
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Optiver (Chicago, IL) en nov 2019
Entrevista
First round was quotebook analysis. Basically, each table has a set of buyers and sellers for a certain instrument and to estimate the value of the instrument. I was then asked to do the same for markets undergoing market shock, when there's an sudden change in demand or supply. This part tested my intuition of how markets change given limited information.
Right after was a game round. Basically, given two dices and a list of payouts, I am pressured to take action to maximize my payroll in n turns. I was given 4 minutes to read the instructions.
I then had a desk shadowing round and lunch. During the desk shadowing, a trader showed me how all the tabs worked on his computer and the whole process where he retrieves information from similar past data and important sources of news to make predictions about the volatility of options on a given future date.
Following lunch was my third and most intense technical round. I played a game where I had to guess the total value of eight cards and make bid-ask offers against CPU players.