J'ai postulé via un établissement d'enseignement supérieur ou universitaire. Le processus a pris 1 jour. J'ai passé un entretien chez Optiver (Londres, Angleterre) en déc. 2013
Entretien
Went to the first numeracy test. You are given 80 questions (MCQ) and have to answer at least 54 (if I remember correctly) to pass, with 48 questions to come to the second round of test, in which case you have to perform extra well to pass the overall assessment. The questions per se are not that difficult, but the pressure and speed makes it difficult. Sometimes the answers are given i a more diffuse way to confuse you, e.g. if the answer is 5/2, it might not be an alternative, but you will find perhaps 20/8.
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)
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.