Optiver reviews

Technical management is quite young and with a notable exception they all started their career at Optiver; as a consequence they believe there is no other way to solve technical problems than "the single Optiver way" and cannot even consider that there are different problems which require different solutions. There's a bit of a herd approach in designing systems and applications, and straying from the path is frowned upon even when the advantages of doing so are clear or might be worth a shot. These issues are lately being exacerbated by narrowed diversity in technical recruitment, populating the engineering ranks with clones of the team leads.

Quite ruthless in letting go of their new traders. Generally the number is around 40-50% of new traders get fired in the first year. I saw 10-15 traders get fired in the 8 months I was there out of a floor of 100 traders. Also quite a common sight to have senior traders telling off junior traders on the desk The career risk may not be worth taking if you have other options..