Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Optiver with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 45% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 11 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Optiver overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Optiver as a Data Scientist according to 11 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 31%
Presentation: 31%
Phone interview: 31%
Personality test: 8%
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Starts with a reasoning assessment, HR interview, technical interview, programming assessment, and finally assessment day (HR, technical, and skill interview). HR is approachable and provides important feedback throughout the process.
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Question 1
What is the average amount of beef consumed by a person in the UK?
The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Optiver in Jun 2022
Interview
After I passed the SHL test, there is a HR interview, and I was rejected after the interview with HR, which is something I never had in my past experience. HR has tremendous power in optiver, which is very rare in a prestigious company. And during the process I don’t feel that I am respected, it’s not like a conversation, with some pre-prepared questions, and you need to answer in the way they like.
Seems that motivation is the main focus of the interview, but
I would say, it’s quite random. Because the reason is quite generic, saying my motivation, experience do not match the role. HR told me that she would get back to me after one hour, but in fact I received the rejection 2 days later.
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Question 1
What optiver, why you switched to different jobs during the past years, how you handle conflicts, other companies you are applying for.
I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Optiver in Mar 2022
Interview
- Interactive Verify G+
- Zoom interview with a recruiter
Recruiter was very nice, asked a lot about behavior during past projects
- Technical interview
Probability questions (eg. coin tosses), brain teasers, estimation questions
- Take Home Assignment
Regression on volatility
- Final Interview Round with Skill-, Technical- and Recruiter Interview
ML/DS questions, questions about volatility and buy/sell scenarios on sample data, similar questions for technical interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the expected number of coin tosses to get 2 heads in a row?
How much money in gold fits into an Olympic swimming pool?