I got declined after the first technical round in Oct 2024
IQ-esque online exam, with reaction time and risk-related games as well (most is on the internet). HR round was very nice, chatted about my leadership roles in uni; probably just filtering out anti-socialists. Technical round was actually pretty average in hindsight, 3 questions starting off with brainteaser, one game-solving, one prob-related question. I got a bit nervous and said "I think it's correct" instead of double checking my answers when the interviewer asked "are you sure" (and I was wrong)
Passed Multiple Rounds.
First was a long OA with coding and maths questions.
Then HR
Then technical interview with a quant researcher.
Then a data challenge then i had to present the results of my data challenge.
Failed at this round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Markov and coin tosses questions.
Probability that a table with 3 legs places randomly on a circle doesn't fall.
Questions about what would happens if features were correleated, why this model not another one, why this hyperparameter. difference ridge vs lasso. difference supervised vs unsupervised
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Optiver (Amsterdam) in Nov 2025
Interview
OA, HR interveiw, Technical Interview, Take home assignment, Final round interviws (one HR one tech discussing take home). OA can be practised on various websites online. HR screen focussed on team work a lot. Technical was not too difficult, I may have just lucked out with the questions. Final round discussed ML techniques and their assumptions
2:30 hr OA contains coding probability game and quick math. Then a market making game round. Need to be quick. Then will be another market making game round. Both asking questions to make market.
