Rishi Poonia: Summer Intern at Optiver

Rishi Poonia, studying in IIT Kanpur as a student in Rishi Poonia Btech EE 210851 will do summer internship in Optiver profile at Optiver. Here are some brief insights.

Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:

"Optiver (Software) Sprinklr (Software) Microsoft (Software) "

Insights on the Selection Process

For Microsoft and Sprinklr, there was 1 coding test, students were shortlisted for interview based on resume and the coding round. Optiver had an initial round with games and some MCQ questions based on CS fundamentals, the next coding test had 3 questions, 2 easy implementations based, 1 hard. Shortlisting was mostly based on performance, resume played little role. Microsoft had 2 interview rounds, one coding question was asked in each round. Sprinklr also had 2 coding rounds, some puzzles were also asked in 2nd round. Optiver had 3 interview rounds, 1 based on system design, 1 on algorithmic coding, and 1 HR round.

Preparation Resources

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Advice for students (dos and don’ts)?

Regularly practice coding problems and puzzles, take feedback on your resume from as many seniors as possible. Discuss questions with your friends, try to gain different perspectives to each question. Make goals and don’t practice aimlessly. DP, Graphs and Binary Search are hot topics for coding questions. Cover the theory of OOPS, small questions on OOPS are asked in almost all interviews.