J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Optiver (Amsterdam) en janv. 2025
Entretien
First round consist of solving number sequences, doing simple probability calculations, and some mindgames. All under strict time pressure. I would advice anyone to go over their probability and statistics course again beforehand. I got an invite to the second round wich is a conversation to test your personality. I have not done this yet so I can not talk much about it. The third round is another cognitive test but then 1-1 with a current trader.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Solve as many number sequences as possible within a 20 minute window
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.
