I applied through university. I interviewed at Optiver in Sep 2013
Interview
First round is an 8-minute 80 math problems such as 24+72 = ? or (3/7)/(?) = (5/8)
After that is a phone behavior interview with questions like why optiver? why trader? three words to describe yourself
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
recruiter:"what other questions you have?" Me:'balabala' recruiter:"sorry that I have to make another phone call. you can email me with the question later"
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)
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.
