Great as a career starter
Great as a career starter
- Amazing history of developing systems and solving problems. You touch and own a lot of projects that were really creative and tell a story.
- Interesting work and its diversity, from being close to research and trading to being a full systems developer.
- Amazing people and a lack of documentation makes you keep talking to them a lot and learning from them directly.
- Great pay, perks like free food, great office outings, etc.
- Possibly longer work hours
- Some lock-in to Optiver specific technology and setup
Maybe we can drift to tech that is more widely used in the world today, slowly and only where needed. This might solve a lot of problems we currently struggle with.
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Software Engineer
The interview starts with a software engineering HackerRank test, which took 8 hours. The question was simple but demanded a lot of engineering design, documentation, and testing, easily taking over 10 hours. Then came the HR interview, which was j
Software Engineer
The process was never communicated. Recommended by several recruiters on LinkedIn multiple times, applied and rejected multiple times as well. Following the acceptance of an interview with Squarepoint, Optiver also responded to organize an interview
Software Engineer
Did not pass the interview. The questions were pretty tough, with multiple steps and were very challenging. I should have studied LeetCode more and done harder/medium LeetCode problems involving algorithms, and also become more familiar with systems
Software Engineer
Hong KongFebruary 13, 2021The interview starts with a software engineering HackerRank test, which took 8 hours. The question was simple but demanded a lot of engineering design, documentation, and testing, easily taking over 10 hours. Then came the HR interview, which was j
Software Engineer
FranceAugust 30, 2020The process was never communicated. Recommended by several recruiters on LinkedIn multiple times, applied and rejected multiple times as well. Following the acceptance of an interview with Squarepoint, Optiver also responded to organize an interview
Software Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United StatesSeptember 24, 2025Did not pass the interview. The questions were pretty tough, with multiple steps and were very challenging. I should have studied LeetCode more and done harder/medium LeetCode problems involving algorithms, and also become more familiar with systems
