I was really excited about my interview with Optiver as I had heard great things. My experience is not in markets so I was approaching this interview as an opportunity to learn more about the space and see if it would be a good option for a lateral move. My interview was supposed to be a 60 minute interview with two senior members of the risk team. My interviewer was 5 minutes late and was a junior member of the team - not either one of the team members the recruiter told me I would speak with. My total interview lasted maybe 25 minutes and consisted of the interviewer reading my resume to me and asking very surface level questions. It felt very strange and unscripted. I didn't have some of the technical experience they were looking for (which as stated previously makes sense because this would have been a lateral for me), but some points of the interview felt a bit degrading. For example, I was asked how strong my math skills were. Given my undergrad degrees are both in engineering, this felt like a strange question. Overall, I was pretty disappointed with my interview experience. The company seemed to be more focused on hiring people with a specific skill set rather than investing in interested candidates who maybe did not meet the exact hiring criteria.

2-3 hrs OA test, extremely fast-paced, with hard probabilities problems, need to think on the feet. Advised to take some break between the tests, even though it was not listed out.