Candidates applying for Graduate Researcher roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Optiver overall takes an average of 28 days.
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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Optiver (Vancouver, BC) in May 2025
Interview
First round were three researcher questions that involves coding. There was also probability questions and number sequencing questions. The last two researcher questions were very difficult and I did not pass.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Approximation programming: given a data set and use approximation programming to predict the upcoming data.