Final round

[teal mason]

What happened in the final?

[lilac meteor]

let's use our critical thinking skills

[teal mason]

Nah was it like a hiring freeze

Or just the finals being hard?

I applied in Nov got through the OA then told they suspended hiring

[rain river]

lots of non leetcode questions

for example how do you get stock information from exchanges

i dont remember the other ones

but anyways idk i gave it my best shot but some of the interviewers were just no social skills and stared at me without asking questions

and when i asked if i needed to explain anything they just said no

and i legit talked for 2 hours straight to myself

[thorn jasper]

Bruh that's so true

You can't tell if they can't be bothered or they are just socially awkrd or you fucked up

[lilac meteor]

this seems to be the case at many places with sharp talent, why does it have to be choose one of (social skills, talent)

[rain river]

so true

[lilac meteor]

tbf I'm overexaggerating but I want to work at a place where I can talk to people about non-nerd stuff and also just shoot the shit

[rain river]

optiver does intramural volleyball iirc

i kinda wanted to work there :(((

[lilac meteor]

where are you rn

simply pass the interview nex ttime

[rain river]

expedia group

pays 1/2 or 1/3 as much as optiver

[lilac meteor]

You’re probably making what 150-200

That ain’t a bad life

Go to optiver later if you really like C++ I guess

[rain river]

i am making 100

at expedia since its chicago

optiver new grad is at least 200

iirc

[lilac meteor]

300-400 prolly

[lilac meteor]

Hey man you’re employed and making 99th percentile income

That’s good

[teal mason]

That’s only for quant tho

[lilac meteor]

I'd be shocked if optiver swe is less than 300

at least in nyc

maybe bit lower in chicago

[teal mason]

Let me check levels, for Austin it was 150k

[lilac meteor]

levels inaccurate

[teal mason]

🤤

I am in the same situation as op. Hope they let me in for 2024 grad too 🤞

[proper walrus]

this is because of marbles value being absurdly high recently

optiver ng swe = base + 25-50 marbles

marble expected value is supposed to be like 2k, it has been much higher the last few years

[lilac meteor]

hmm, so should be ~275k then?

I thought first year was guaranteed bonus not marbles