FPGA Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Optiver with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for FPGA Intern roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Optiver overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Optiver as a FPGA Intern according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Personality test: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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Online assessment on FSM basics, one hot machines, basic data structures and resource use analysis of RTL. The questions are managable with intentional preparation, but read the questions carefully and pay attention to wording.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Convert the FSM into one hot, how many bits are required?
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Optiver (Amsterdam) in Oct 2025
Interview
Started off with an Online Assessment on fundamentals of fpga digital design, followed by behavioural interview with Human resources followed by technical interview with senior engineers interview, all of these interviews were online.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me 'when is one time that struggled with working in a team on a large project?'
I applied online. I interviewed at Optiver (Chicago, IL)
Interview
It was an online assessment. Starts with logic gates questions and truth table and there was a question on systemverilog debugging. Then there was coding questions on networking, data structures and basic of coding