Graduate Trader Program applicants have rated the interview process at Optiver with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Graduate Trader Program roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 4 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 Graduate Trader Program according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Personality test: 33%
IQ intelligence test: 17%
Skills test: 17%
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3 hours of online assessments followed by an HR interview. Afterwards you are given two technical interviews, both with a different experienced trader where they make you play market making games to test how you adapt strategies.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
if you have 8 coins, 1 cent, 2 cent, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200. What is the probability that you can pay for an 80 cent item if you choose 3 coins randomly.
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Optiver (Amsterdam) in Oct 2023
Interview
First you get an Online assessment consisting of 80in8, Zap-N games, Sequences, Probability and Zap-Q behavioural questions, then behavioural interview, followed by two technical interviews and then one final interview.
I applied to optiver via their website they got invited to participate in a series of steps. You had to pass each step to be able to the next one. There was 5 steps in total, made it to step 4.