I applied online. I interviewed at Optiver (Sydney) in Apr 2023
Interview
the interview about Software Engineer(Internship) in optus is pretty nice, though it's quite difficult, the interviewer is very professional, it's a good experience for me, and interviewer need to do some personality test
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
They gave a long block of python code and wanted me to find the error in it, then wanted me to explain how I would make the system more scalable.
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Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Optiver with 3.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 58 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Optiver overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Optiver as a Software Engineer(Internship) according to 58 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 24%
Skills test: 19%
One on one interview: 16%
IQ intelligence test: 14%
Presentation: 9%
Personality test: 9%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 2%
Group panel interview: 1%
Other: 1%
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