I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Optiver in Nov 2017
Interview
I applied online and was offered a phone interview. The phone interview was pretty typical, the recruiter went through all the parts of my resume and asked me general questions about a project I did (Recruiter was from HR, so non-technical). Afterwards, the recruiter described the general structure and environment at the company and asked if I had any questions.
The next step would be a Hackerrank challenge, but I did not make it to that round since it was my first phone interview of the recruiting season, so I was not very prepared. However, they provided very fast responses, within just a few business days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was my role in a team project written on my resume
The interviews consisted of an OA, then behavioural, then technical and thena final round consisting of another technical, system design and behavioural. These last interviews all an hour each. I only got up to the first technical.
OA; quite long, 3 tests
Behavioral interview: just a short talk with HR, motivation,…
Technical Interview 1: fundamental CS, nothing more
Technical Interview 2: system design, very vague but just go with the flow
Technical Interview 3: live coding, still leetcode but optiver style is a very descriptive problem, but the main thing could be boiled down into only few lines