Mission At Optiver, we continuously quote buy and sell prices across global financial markets. We use our own capital and advanced technology to provide liquidity at scale so participants can trade efficiently, even in complex and volatile conditions.
Description A global technology- and research-driven trading firm where ideas become breakthroughs in global markets.
Jump Trading is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets.
Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect.
At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.
As a leading, global market maker, IMC trades on more than 100 venues and provides liquidity in more than 200,000 securities. Using innovative technology and advanced trading strategies, we've played our part in making financial markets more efficient for almost 30 years.
Established in Amsterdam in 1989, IMC has expanded to over 500 employees with offices in Chicago and Sydney.
Across offices, diverse teams of traders, developers and technologists work together to design and develop the software, hardware, networks and algorithms that drive our strategies and make us one of the world’s leading liquidity providers. We hire independent thinkers and challenge them to anticipate change and continuously innovate, seeking new ways to sustain our success. At IMC, anyone can make an impact and everyone is encouraged to do so.
Optiver has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 569 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Optiver employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).
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Overall, 60% of employees would recommend working at Optiver to a friend. This is based on 606 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
52% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Optiver as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Optiver.