Optiver General Intern Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Optiver.
Optiver
Intern
Intern Average Positive experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Take home Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical Behavioral
So first there was this really long online assessment (OA). After that, I had a short behavioral interview. Then, a cognitive test that looked at betting sizes, arbitrage, and how to exploit bad bets. The later stages involved more general quantitative trading questions, specifically about EV.
Confirmed questions6 questions
- Standard quantitative trading questions
- Programming questions for quantitative researchers
- Questions about betting sizes
Optiver
Intern
Intern Average Positive experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Take home Recruiter call
Interview formats
Technical Other
I applied for the internship and had to do an online assessment first, and then an hr interview. Unfortunately, I didn't get past the online assessment. The assessment had basic sequence and probability questions, and also some reaction time games. Practicing on a quant trading math website was really similar to the actual interview questions.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- Basic sequence questions
- Basic probability questions
- Reaction time games
Optiver
Intern
Intern Difficult Neutral experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical
The online assessment (OA) was tough, but I progressed to the first technical interview. This interview involved making strategic bets on various games to maximize potential earnings. I felt it was going well until the final move, where time pressure led me to make a poor bet that ultimately cost me the opportunity. I did not advance to the next stage.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- How would you approach the Bet on Coins game?
- What are your strategies for card games to make the most money?
Optiver General Intern Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Optiver interview reports.
“Regarding a full binary tree, how many leaf nodes does it have?”
Read reports →“What is the dollar amount of total coupon savings (online and in-person) used in the United States?”
Read reports →“What is the smallest multiple of 22 greater than 20000?”
Read reports →“If three two-digit numbers are picked randomly, what's the chance their total will be a three-digit number?”
Read reports →“Given two clocks exactly 6 hours apart, at what fraction of times during a day are both at an acute angle?”
Read report →“If you have 100 teams sorted randomly into a bracket, what's the chance the second-best team gets to the final?”
Read report →“Can you write a function to parse a string representing binary tree nodes in the format "(a, b) (c, d), ...", where each pair indicates a parent and its child? Ensure the function can detect and handle errors in the input or the tree structure, such as incorrect formatting, excessive child nodes, or cycles. If the input is valid and the tree is error-free, the function should traverse the tree and output the node values sequentially.”
Read report →“Given a biased coin (2/3 heads), how can you achieve a 50-50 probability outcome?”
Read report →“Can you estimate the square roots of 700, 3000, and 50,000 to one decimal place?”
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