Optiver

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - United Kingdom

March 1, 2020

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I did not make it past the programming test, but they made it easy to apply and didn't ask for anything unreasonable.

When I requested some feedback, they promptly sent back the programming test result.

Questions

Language features such as inheritance and object-oriented design.

Some algorithm and data structure questions.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 9 interview experiences for the Optiver Software Engineer (Internship) role in United Kingdom.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

Optiver's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in the United Kingdom is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive78%

Neutral22%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Optiver's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in United Kingdom.

Optiver Work Experiences

Challenging But Learning With Best

Graduate Software Developer • Current Employee

London, undefined, United Kingdom

February 19, 2024

Pros: Trading Company, so will definitely learn the things with the best players.

Cons: Very challenging to work, as the expectation is very high.

Challenging But Learning With Best

Graduate Software Developer • Current Employee

London, undefined, United Kingdom

February 19, 2024

Pros: Trading Company, so will definitely learn the things with the best players.

Cons: Very challenging to work, as the expectation is very high.

Fun, hard, awesome people

Senior Developer and Manager • Current Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pros: All the people are excellent - smart, reliable, with great attitudes. The work is hard and diverse, and you can go deep and/or wide. You have a very high impact on the organisation as a whole. A great feedback culture drives continual improvement across every part of our business. The food is something else!

Cons: Not very good at international collaboration. We're just not used to doing it, so we don't do it well.

Fun, hard, awesome people

Senior Developer and Manager • Current Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pros: All the people are excellent - smart, reliable, with great attitudes. The work is hard and diverse, and you can go deep and/or wide. You have a very high impact on the organisation as a whole. A great feedback culture drives continual improvement across every part of our business. The food is something else!

Cons: Not very good at international collaboration. We're just not used to doing it, so we don't do it well.

A good company to work for

Software Test Engineer • Former Employee

Amsterdam, Netherlands

October 20, 2015

Pros: Excellent environment, very helpful service desk and HR, great people around, lots of useful trainings, free Dutch & English language courses, team dinners a few times per year, 10 additional days of vacation after 1st year. Not having an external customer turned out to be awesome. You really feel you're one team with everyone trying to help and solve the problems.

Cons: Sometimes it could be too much stress, but normally it's all right.

A good company to work for

Software Test Engineer • Former Employee

Amsterdam, Netherlands

October 20, 2015

Pros: Excellent environment, very helpful service desk and HR, great people around, lots of useful trainings, free Dutch & English language courses, team dinners a few times per year, 10 additional days of vacation after 1st year. Not having an external customer turned out to be awesome. You really feel you're one team with everyone trying to help and solve the problems.

Cons: Sometimes it could be too much stress, but normally it's all right.

Challenging But Learning With Best

Graduate Software Developer • Current Employee

London, undefined, United Kingdom

February 19, 2024

Pros: Trading Company, so will definitely learn the things with the best players.

Cons: Very challenging to work, as the expectation is very high.

4.0
Challenging But Learning With Best
Graduate Software Developer • Current Employee
London, undefined, United Kingdom
February 19, 2024
Pros: Trading Company, so will definitely learn the things with the best players.
Cons: Very challenging to work, as the expectation is very high.

Fun, hard, awesome people

Senior Developer and Manager • Current Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pros: All the people are excellent - smart, reliable, with great attitudes. The work is hard and diverse, and you can go deep and/or wide. You have a very high impact on the organisation as a whole. A great feedback culture drives continual improvement across every part of our business. The food is something else!

Cons: Not very good at international collaboration. We're just not used to doing it, so we don't do it well.

5.0
Fun, hard, awesome people
Senior Developer and Manager • Current Employee
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
June 13, 2019
Pros: All the people are excellent - smart, reliable, with great attitudes. The work is hard and diverse, and you can go deep and/or wide. You have a very high impact on the organisation as a whole. A great feedback culture drives continual improvement across every part of our business. The food is something else!
Cons: Not very good at international collaboration. We're just not used to doing it, so we don't do it well.

A good company to work for

Software Test Engineer • Former Employee

Amsterdam, Netherlands

October 20, 2015

Pros: Excellent environment, very helpful service desk and HR, great people around, lots of useful trainings, free Dutch & English language courses, team dinners a few times per year, 10 additional days of vacation after 1st year. Not having an external customer turned out to be awesome. You really feel you're one team with everyone trying to help and solve the problems.

Cons: Sometimes it could be too much stress, but normally it's all right.

5.0
A good company to work for
Software Test Engineer • Former Employee
Amsterdam, Netherlands
October 20, 2015
Pros: Excellent environment, very helpful service desk and HR, great people around, lots of useful trainings, free Dutch & English language courses, team dinners a few times per year, 10 additional days of vacation after 1st year. Not having an external customer turned out to be awesome. You really feel you're one team with everyone trying to help and solve the problems.
Cons: Sometimes it could be too much stress, but normally it's all right.

Optiver Interview Questions

Number of Days Between Two Dates

Calculate the number of days between two given dates. The dates are provided in a specific format, and you need to compute the difference in days.

LRU Cache

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

Design Circular Queue

Implement a circular queue data structure with a fixed size. You'll need to handle enqueueing, dequeueing, and checking if the queue is full or empty efficiently.

ArraysTwo PointersSliding Windows

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