Case Study: Optiver achieves stronger engineer hiring and team scaling with HackerRank

How Optiver Hires Engineers & Scales Large Teams with David Kent

Optiver, a proprietary trading firm in FinTech, faced a tough hiring challenge: attracting and identifying top engineers despite limited brand recognition and intense competition for talent. In this HackerRank podcast case study, David Kent, Automated Trading Systems Team Lead at Optiver, explains how the company needed a better way to evaluate candidates and scale its engineering teams while improving the interview experience.

Optiver implemented HackerRank as part of a more thoughtful, two-way interview process, using carefully designed technical screening tests, stricter feedback practices, and interviewer shadowing. With HackerRank, Optiver improved candidate fit, reduced drop-offs, and raised the quality of onsite interviews; the company also now gives candidates a week to complete requests and requires two reviewers to approve coding before onsite interviews, helping make the process more consistent and effective.

Optiver

David Kent

Automated Trading Systems Team Lead