SWE Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Optiver with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 43.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SWE Intern roles take an average of 35 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Optiver overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Optiver as a SWE Intern according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
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Difficult recruitment process. In person interview had two leetcode hards. graph / dynamic programming related. Initial screening is an iq test / aptitude test for several hours which is tiring
Was pretty chill, had a bit of miscommunication in the technical, but it was fine. Had behavioral and technical. Behavioral was standard, technical was leetcode easy and or medium. Think there was one more round
The interview process included one technical coding round, one system design discussion, and one behavioral interview. Questions focused on problem-solving, communication, and fundamentals in algorithms, systems, and software engineering. s
I applied online. I interviewed at Optiver (Shanghai, Shanghai) in Mar 2026
Interview
OA, HR behavior phone interview. Tech Screen. But they only go for one role at the same time, and cancel the hr phone call at the last minute. OA has both multiple choices knowldge question and coding in hackerank