FPGA Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Optiver with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for FPGA Engineer roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 12 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 FPGA Engineer according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 23%
One on one interview: 23%
IQ intelligence test: 15%
Skills test: 15%
Presentation: 15%
Other: 8%
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The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Optiver (Chicago, IL) in Jan 2024
Interview
Started with an online assessment that was difficult, then an HR phone call 2 rounds of technicals. Didn't make it past the first round of technical, kinda my fault. They asked me questions about optimization and setup and hold time, pretty standard stuff.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Detail the difference between grey encoding standard encoding, and one hot
There was a hacker rank interview in the first round. The hacker rank interview took about 2 hours. I think there were about 30 questions. They were low level FPGA questions.
I applied online and got invited for the online assessment. OA was a 60 minutes exams with multiple choise questions and RTL code debuging, and mostly basic digital logic questions. still waiting for the result.
I applied online. I interviewed at Optiver (Amsterdam) in Jan 2026
Interview
I just did the first assessment and it was about multiple choice questions and a coding question in c and a debug questionin verilog. Most of the multiple choice questions were about logical gates and truth tables