Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Optiver with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 46% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 123 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Optiver overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Optiver as a Software Engineer according to 123 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Skills test: 17%
One on one interview: 13%
Presentation: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Background check: 7%
Group panel interview: 6%
Personality test: 6%
Other: 1%
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Received the OA which was consisted of 3 portions- firstly, the hackerrank of 2 medium difficulty questions, second, a quiz on CS fundamentals and lastly a cognitive test that consisted of a few games testing memory and etc
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Question 1
For CS fundamentals, just some standard algorithm questions and system questions
A bit anxiety inducing, there were two developers observing and asking questions. Real-time problem solving required, conducted on Hacker Rank virtually, video and mic enabled - quite nervewracking to say the least
I had one round, which was an online HackerRank test. I wasn’t able to pass all the test cases, and as a result, I did not progress to the next stage of the process.
A lot of interviews. Started off with a call, then some online tests. Then a technical interview. Then a live coding interview along with a architecture interview. Last step would have been final day interview but I did not get that far.
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Question 1
How many bits do you need to store a number up to X. And how can you represent that.