spent about 1.5 months pretty much purely dedicated to preparing for interviews for all the pre-penultimate programs (Optiver, IMC, JS, SIG, Citadel, etc). I used these resources:
Green book (Really good starter but I got bored of it after a few weeks)
EverythingQuant (Went through literally every single interview prep question, went through the interview guides, and completed the probability course just to make sure I covered all bases)
Briefly read through this guide
Watched coding Jesus in my spare time (not sure if this helped directly lmao but he’s a great creator and very informative)
Entretien difficile
Candidature
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Optiver
Entretien
Applied online. Received an invitation for first-round phone screen shortly after. Spoke with the recruiter discussing basic behavioural questions-- had a very nice conversation. A few weeks later, received invitation for technical phone screen with one of the traders. Did not make it any further.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
A series of questions regarding picking cards from a deck. Wish I played poker.
Mental math test, beat the odds, online puzzle like games etc online, brain teasers during physical interview and a behavioral interview where they want to assess how competitive and assertive you are.
OA was weird and hard. there was only three sections (i think) this year compared to 5 last year. questions are weird and I don't know how they can judge your ability base on that.