1st round, on campus, math test - 8 mins 80 questions , negative marks for skipped questions and wrong answers. 55 marks to stay 2nd round, on campus, sequence test - 30 mins 26 questions, negative marks for wrong answers, no deduction for skipped questions. Questions are a lot harder than the 1st round. but plenty of time to work through each questions thoroughly and carefully. 3rd round, phone interview. with HR - the usual stuff as most phone interviews. went through CV transcript past work experience. 4th round, 1hr tech and behavioural interview session in optiver office -- haven't done it yet. last round. another interview, but sure about the details.

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)