I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Optiver (Austin, TX) in Sep 2024
Interview
The interview process is broken down into four different rounds, Optiver Online Assessment, Behavioral Phone Interview, Virtual Technical Screen, and finally the Virtual Technical Interview. The entire process can span over 4 to 8 weeks.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
2 coding questions on HackerRank, one is probably the equivalent to a leetcode medium and the other is an object-oriented design.
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