J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Optiver
Entretien
First online screening test - 8 min calculations
Then behavioral phone interview with HR - go through resume and why trader, why Optiver.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Can someone give me an example of how to answer the question "Make a market on the number of streets in Manhattan" (I made it up. I'm not sure about how to make the initial "wide" bid/ask spread and then gradually shrink it, How do you interact with the interviewer with a question like this, specifically? Thanks!!)
spent about 1.5 months pretty much purely dedicated to preparing for interviews for all the pre-penultimate programs (Optiver, IMC, JS, SIG, Citadel, etc). I used these resources:
Green book (Really good starter but I got bored of it after a few weeks)
EverythingQuant (Went through literally every single interview prep question, went through the interview guides, and completed the probability course just to make sure I covered all bases)
Briefly read through this guide
Watched coding Jesus in my spare time (not sure if this helped directly lmao but he’s a great creator and very informative)
Mental math test, beat the odds, online puzzle like games etc online, brain teasers during physical interview and a behavioral interview where they want to assess how competitive and assertive you are.
OA was weird and hard. there was only three sections (i think) this year compared to 5 last year. questions are weird and I don't know how they can judge your ability base on that.
