It was essentially an IQ test consisting of several interactive games, but nothing too intense or overwhelming. The 80 questions in 8 minutes were definitely challenging, but overall, the experience remained fairly calm and manageable.
Still taking on process OA took long though because it has 6 sections. They do a resume screen right after the OA and heard from my friends that problems are on green book.
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Just took the online assessment but 6 different sections all mental math, fermi, games, logic, and probabilty
Got an online assessment which were a variety of different cognitive tests. You needed to be quick to deduce the pattern (+ quick calculations) with sequences. Probability questions were tricky as well, best to prepare your stats prior the OA. After the OA, a behavioural screen (20-30mins) with their recruiters and then the technical interviews.
Definitely a challenging interview process but was enjoyable to try and solve.
Got in through future focus, lot of trading games etc. commodity games market making games trading simulations which happened. Based of performance off these events secured offer. Would just suggest to brush up mental math a lot
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Market making on the flight duration from india to sydney
Quant Trader Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Optiver with 3.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 52% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Quant Trader Intern roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 42 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 Quant Trader Intern according to 42 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 20%
One on one interview: 18%
IQ intelligence test: 17%
Phone interview: 17%
Personality test: 17%
Other: 6%
Presentation: 3%
Background check: 2%
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