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Optiver Software Engineer Interview Questions

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OA 15 Phone 6 Phone Screen 3 Coding 3 System Design 2

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3 coding questions, 1.5 hours The following content requires a score higher than 200. You can already view it. Q1: Given n, k, m; n is the number of shares you want to hold, k is the number of shares

The OA (Online Response Assessment) for Optimizer has three parts. Here's a sample coding question from the first part. A friend of mine also applied and encountered a question similar to the hot air

Hey, I recently passed the behavioral phone call with Optiver and am now preparing for the technical round. While I expect the focus to be on DSA, I want to prep a little system design too. I have not

I received my Optiver OA assessment link last week, which contains three sections (in this post, I just want to talk about the coding part). The coding section consists of two questions (mostly OOP) w

LeetCode #622: Design Circular Queue. Difficulty: Medium. Topics: Array, Linked List, Design, Queue. Asked at Optiver in the last 6 months.

LeetCode #1206: Design Skiplist. Difficulty: Hard. Topics: Linked List, Design. Asked at Optiver in the last 6 months.

LeetCode #146: LRU Cache. Difficulty: Medium. Topics: Hash Table, Linked List, Design, Doubly-Linked List. Asked at Optiver in the last 6 months.

Passed the Optiver trader OA a few weeks back, so they asked me to schedule a phone screen with a recruiter, which would have taken place 30 minutes from now. An hour before the call, I get a rejectio

Recently scheduled optiver r1 technical for swe intern. Anyone mind sharing what types of questions they ask/how you would prepare?

Does Optiver mandate that you interview in C++ or are you free to choose? I know that there will be a leetcode round and a system design round.

A satellite network is experimenting with a distributed communication protocol based on satellite connections. During system tests, the team wants to ensure that messages they sent are processed in the correct...

Hi everyone, I recently got invited to take the Online Assessment (OA) for Optiver, and I’m looking for some advice or insights from those who have gone through it. 1. What kind of questions can I exp

Truck Positions A logistics company has a central software solution to track the position of their trucks. Different applications are interested in different trucks. To save bandwidth the company wants to...

The OA was for Software Engineer Internship 2024 and below is the second question from it. # Concert Tickets ## Problem Statement As a long time live-music fan you have kept a bucket...

The OA was for Software Engineer Internship 2024 and below is the second question from it. Concert Tickets Problem Statement As a long time live-music fan you have kept a bucket list of...

Applied for SWE internship, passed OA, got a behavioral phone screen, and rejected afterwards. The recruiter only asked one question about my experience and everything else was like "can you work in t

Hey first time poster here, I'm applying for a software engineering internship at Optiver and next up I got a 2 hour system design round coming up. They say it's not like a traditional system design i

I recently gave the OA for Optiver with the hackerrank, MCQs, and Zap-n, and was rejected today. I felt like I did pretty well for my OA as it was medium difficulty question and my mcqs were also pret

Title. I did my technical phone for Optiver NG SWE last week and will do the final rounds this Friday. To be honest, I didn't think I'd make it this far and I thought new grads won't be asked sys desi

Did anyone do the phone screen for Optiver after the recruiter call? Is this round just a review of the hackerrank? Thanks!

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