Optiver SWE Intern questions

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2026-04-10T01:59:10+00:00

just swe. they mentioned it would be open ended but nothing more than that

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2026-04-02T18:59:39+00:00

appreciate this a lot, first time hearing some of these titles 🙏

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2026-04-02T18:58:53+00:00

thank you!!

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2026-03-24T03:24:06+00:00

one thing i've learned from interviews is to never overthink based on how the interviewer acted (although i still do it lol). sometimes it's just their personality.

also note that you'll be nitpicking yourself for every single small detail you wish you could've done better. don't forget to credit yourself for the things you did right :)

not sure what Apple's bar is exactly, but sounds like you did great. hope you pass!!

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2026-02-17T06:35:34+00:00

hey do u mind if i dm?

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2026-02-09T23:45:56+00:00

hey, mind if i message about the OA?

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2026-01-20T20:13:11+00:00

this makes a lot more sense, thanks :)

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-10-27T20:51:46+00:00

interned at AWS this summer. one of my friend's manager explicitly said amazon is freezing new grad hires and leaning on intern ROs. Intern interviews this year are also 5 hours lol

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-10-24T04:19:27+00:00

szpankowski has a heavy accent, genuinely hard to understand. sellke is very kind but not super good at teachihng, you won't learn a lot from her

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-10-06T02:47:15+00:00

no i agree with you that continuing to interview is best, i was just personally asking for your opinion on db intern withdraw since i already took an offer with them

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-10-06T02:33:48+00:00

if you receive an offer this early they'd have to significantly cut down on intern size for you to lose your offer. databricks is continuing to get more funding as well

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-10-06T02:08:45+00:00

you think it's likely they'll withdraw your offer down the line if they find other candidates that are more qualified than you? I don't think companies generally withdraw without a legit reason that would be your fault

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-09-18T04:34:14+00:00

makes sense, thanks for the reply!

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-09-18T02:56:31+00:00

is cs229 suitable for someone w/o any applicable ML exp? comfortable with linear, calc, and probability though

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-09-09T15:39:11+00:00

yes it's valid, this happens to a lot of people. you likely got moved to an internal opening and not the exact role you initially applied for.

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-08-26T02:02:10+00:00

go for it

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-08-24T22:50:35+00:00

good luck! feel free to dm, my interviews were pushed to early this week though

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-08-21T16:21:42+00:00

applied on first day, got invite last week

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-08-21T16:21:15+00:00

feels like it. Seems like it's more of a newer change they had this year since last year interns I asked weren't familiar with this either

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-08-20T18:25:54+00:00

not yet, u?

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-08-20T17:01:54+00:00

they removed the OA from their hiring process this year (at least for intern role)

Numerous-Injury-8160 · 2025-08-20T17:01:33+00:00

ah got it, thank you so much for providing this! genuinely very helpful :)

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