I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Optiver
Interview
There is an" 80 mental math multiple choices in 8 min" test before first round. First Round is all behavioral and Second Round is Technical. Questions are like: Why want to be a trader? Why this university? And they also asked about my major and how do I like it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Not too many. Mental Math sometimes is hard. Like random two digit number square etc.
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.
