Optiver: All Bar-Raising Positions Welcome

Posted by Keith Hahn, May 03, 2007, 8:37am

Check out the latest recruiting advert from Amsterdam based derivatives trading firm Optiver. The firm, with other branches in Sydney and Chicago, employs 280 people, but emphasizes:

At the moment there are only 20 women in Optiver, so female applicants for all positions are welcome!

We’re not sure if the double entendre is intentional, but it’s clear the firm is not shy about its motives (DealBreaker’s own BL is filling out an application for the positions of “non-stop hotness” and “wheelbarrow”). The “Culture” page of the firm’s website has a picture of a guy playing pool, which granted isn’t the wildest thing you can do in Amsterdam, but does suggest that there are photos you aren’t seeing. You are cordially invited to go to Amsterdam and party with the Optiver crew during one of the firm’s many “in-house days” to, in the firm’s words, “find out whether our culture suits you.” (We’re working on this… tell me it wouldn’t be the greatest photo essay ever)

Here’s the ad, definitely a better pick-me-up than coffee this morning:

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Posted by nm, May 03, 2007 8:47AM

They also used to have a quantitative test on the website, after which I decided that trading derivatives sucks. The ppl there are very laid-back, if they only had women...

Posted by Anonymous, May 03, 2007 9:30AM

What quantitative test? Where is it?

Posted by nm, May 03, 2007 9:49AM

Seems to be gone, at least I didn't see it on the website. I took it about 1.5yrs ago, it was incredibly difficult. No comparison to the other tests you find online (e.g. the JPM-test), mostly because you only had like 30sec to answer.

Posted by , May 03, 2007 10:56AM

hands down better than my coffee

Posted by girl, May 03, 2007 10:59AM

are they all old men? bc ill apply otherwise

Posted by , May 03, 2007 11:01AM

i like the sound of this BL “non-stop hotness”

Posted by BSD, May 03, 2007 12:09PM

Not as good as my coffee, but only because I used pure Cambodian breast milk in mine.

Posted by Zbignew, May 03, 2007 12:31PM

Cambodian breast-milk is an affectation for punters who want to appear sophisticated, like that fat kid from Bear Stearns with the pen behind his ear.

I get my breast-milk coffee cream from unwed cuban mothers who are fed only plantains and chorizo. It's embargoed, so you have to know someone who can get it in through Canada or the Dominican.

Posted by tipsy in madras, May 03, 2007 1:14PM

Coffee is for pikers. I drink tea brewed from a blend of the finest tea leaves, crisp $100 bills, and cream from the breastmilk of the Chiru, a rare Tibetan antelope.

Posted by Texas Energy, May 03, 2007 1:57PM

I only drink tea that me and my sherpa, Lapsang, got while climbing the Mayan ruins.

Posted by BSD, May 03, 2007 3:05PM

Sherpas are indigenous to Tibet, so I applaud the effort of brining one all the way to South America with you to climb them ruins.

Posted by Texas Energy, May 03, 2007 3:12PM

He travels with me everywhere.

(BSD, go rent Zoolander)

Posted by Clueless, May 03, 2007 3:19PM

Don't you idiots know you can get free creamer at the gas station? Duh!

Posted by BSD, May 03, 2007 3:41PM

Oh, SNAP!

You totally got me Texas Energy.

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