I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Optiver in Sep 2021
Interview
80in8 mental maths, followed by series test. After these there was another round of testing with psychometric tests and general ability tests. After this I was invited to the HR round, thought it went well but it seems they want very structured answers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What skills do traders need?
How would you friends describe you?
OA for Round 1, involves a lot of quick calculations and estimations. Behavioural interview, Technical interviews and final superday. Final superday involves many interviews, but I did not reach that part.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why trading? Have you applied to any other places?
Multiple Rounds, first was behavioral and second was technical. They first did a pretty lengthy behavioral and seemed pretty good, but then the technical was mainly all Fermi estimations and market making games.
Online assessment followed by multiple steps of technical and behavioral interviews. Pretty standard process in general, positive experience. Seemed to care a lot about cultural fit more than other firms