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      Software Engineer Interview

      19 Apr 2019
      Anonymous employee
      Amsterdam
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Optiver (Amsterdam) in Mar 2019

      Interview

      Hackerrank, then hr interview, then technical interview both over Skype, then a day of face to face interviews in Amsterdam. Hackerrank questions are hard but they give you enough time to tackle the questions. Better to brush up algorithms and data structures. Hr interview is more like a culture fit interview, and they’re looking for people who have clear reasons and motivation to apply there. The technical interview is going through your answers to the coding challenge, follow up questions on them. Then a networking question (know your protocols). Then, series of on-site interviews in Amsterdam: Programming interview is different than other companies. They don’t ask you regular algorithm questions like reversing a linked list. It’s something you haven’t seen before, specific to their domain, and you need to brainstorm together to come up with a solution. And it goes in iterations, after you get one stage right, they throw you a curve ball and see how you handle it. It was really exciting and fun to work on, time really flew. Then a system design, again, something you probably haven’t seen before, everything on the first step above applies. Just think out loud and think simple. Lunch with prospective colleagues, chance to ask a little more personal questions. Project interview where you talk about a project that you’re proud of. Be prepared to talk about motivation, technical aspects, explaining the process. All in all, they have a really high bar and the interviews are not easy. But if you just go on with an open mind and make your analysis good before jumping on a solution, it becomes easier. They value simple solutions.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Tcp vs udp
      Answer question
      15

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      Software Engineer Interview

      18 May 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Sydney
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Optiver (Sydney)

      Interview

      A bit anxiety inducing, there were two developers observing and asking questions. Real-time problem solving required, conducted on Hacker Rank virtually, video and mic enabled - quite nervewracking to say the least

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Space-time complexity, Big O notation
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Interview

      16 Apr 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Optiver

      Interview

      I had one round, which was an online HackerRank test. I wasn’t able to pass all the test cases, and as a result, I did not progress to the next stage of the process.

      Software Engineer Interview

      30 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Amsterdam
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Optiver (Amsterdam)

      Interview

      A lot of interviews. Started off with a call, then some online tests. Then a technical interview. Then a live coding interview along with a architecture interview. Last step would have been final day interview but I did not get that far.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How many bits do you need to store a number up to X. And how can you represent that.
      Answer question

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