Optiver interview notes, page 5 of 10

“The key insight is that you're not searching through the piles, you're binary searching on the speed itself.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Optiver, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty easy warmup.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Optiver, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The cycling operations (-1, +2, x3, /4) aren't hard to spot once you check a few differences, but I fumbled the recurrence notation because I kept second-guessing whether to index from 0 or 1.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Optiver, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Stared at this for a bit because I kept trying to find one unified pattern across the whole thing.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Optiver, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The time limit is the real trick here.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Optiver, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Took me a beat to see this wasn't just a standard arithmetic or geometric thing.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Optiver, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one tripped me up more than it should have.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Optiver, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The basic case is just (m+n) choose m, since you're picking positions for the 'a's and the 'b's fill the rest.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Optiver, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is where you live or die on knowing the two-dice distribution cold.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Optiver, Onsite - Multi Round round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The first few minutes I was fine, then a couple bad fills stacked up and I started second-guessing every quote.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Optiver, Onsite - Multi Round round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.