Wade

Optiver was hands down the worst interview experience of my life. First round was with a recruiter. Second was with a trader, pretty light technical questions. I was already working at another market maker, so was interviewing as an "experienced trader." They told me the lateral-hire process would focus more on practical market-making questions, some theory, etc. Sounded reasonable. Then came round three. I sat down with this 6'8" Dutch guy who immediately started hammering me with math and coding questions. Linear optimization, ternary search, and a bunch of other shit I hadn't thought about since college. Just question after question some took like 5 minutes to explain and 25 minutes to solve. went on for probably an hour and a half. Felt so cooked I eventually told him I idfk dude. Not one market making question either, no coin flipping, fair sided die questions. brutal. Walked out of the interview and decided I never wanted to work in market making ever again

“but Wade SPY is only like 4% off its high why are you down so much”. -worst type of people