I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Optiver (Chicago, IL) in Oct 2025
Interview
First round OA- 3 parts including coding and mind math test
Second round phone behavioural - 15 min calls asking past experience and they gave me a lot of time to asking questions
I got rejected at the second round.
Other Software Engineer(Internship) Interview Reviews for Optiver
The interviews consisted of an OA, then behavioural, then technical and thena final round consisting of another technical, system design and behavioural. These last interviews all an hour each. I only got up to the first technical.
OA; quite long, 3 tests
Behavioral interview: just a short talk with HR, motivation,…
Technical Interview 1: fundamental CS, nothing more
Technical Interview 2: system design, very vague but just go with the flow
Technical Interview 3: live coding, still leetcode but optiver style is a very descriptive problem, but the main thing could be boiled down into only few lines