Quantitative Trader

Status

Student / Prospective Monkey at

Optiver

Group/Division/Type

Prop Trading

City

London

Interviewed

September 2023

Overall experience

Positive

Difficulty

Difficult

General Interview Information

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?

Skills Test

IQ / Intelligence Test

Personality Test

Other

Please describe the interview / hiring process.

I applied online and got the online assessment.
There are several stages
1. famous 80 in 8, I did 69 correctly and moved on to next stage
2. Games, ballooon pumping game & sausage flipping are the hardest, others are just reaction and memory
3. Sequence reasoning, find out the next number in a sequence (quite hard, make sure you knnow the common ones and the mixture/variations of them)
4. Rapid fire probability questions (+1 for correct and -1 for wrong answer, I think 7 or 8 out of 10 is a pass)
5. Personality questions, there are wrong answers be careful

I got rejected after the personality questionnaire (OMG, or maybe just my overall score is not high enough)