All Options Interview Guide

All Options is a proprietary trading firm and options market maker, founded in 1998 and headquartered in Amsterdam. From there it trades on all major European option exchanges: the homepage counts more than 1 million instruments on more than 800 underliers across 4 EU exchanges.

Its second office, in Austin, Texas, extends the firm's reach across US markets. The homepage says that in the US it prices options on more than 2,000 underliers and quotes options on more than 600.

Founders and employees own the firm. It trades on its own account and has no external clients or investors.

The careers page says nearly half of the staff are traders, with risk, compliance, IT and other teams supporting them.

Graduate Trader, Amsterdam

Start in March or September 2027. You need a Master's degree or higher in a quantitative field such as STEM, statistics, econometrics or quantitative finance, and you need to be based in Europe now.

You price and trade listed options, making discretionary decisions from the screen, and turn each option's risk and payoff into a volatility price. All Options judges you mainly on trading performance and the quality of your decisions in live markets.

Coding helps, but developers and quant traders build the larger systems. The posting asks for a willingness to learn Python and to research and improve trading strategies.

Training lasts six months. The first four weeks are lectures and shadowing on options theory, trading systems and tools, led by experienced traders. After that you manage a limited portfolio under a mentor trader, with coaching and performance monitoring throughout.

Graduate Quantitative Trader, Amsterdam

Start in March or September 2027. The Master's degree and the base in Europe apply here too.

You research and design systematic strategies instead of trading by hand. Within your first months you build and backtest signals, pricing tools and automated trading algorithms and take them to production.

Programming is a daily, central part of the job. The posting expects coding to come naturally to you, counts Python experience in your favour and asks for strong pattern recognition.

After the first four weeks you join a research or development project tied to your desk's current focus, under a mentor quant.

Graduate Quantitative Trader, Austin

Cohorts start in February 2027 and August 2027. You need to graduate between December 2026 and June 2027 with a bachelor's or higher in a quantitative field such as computer science, maths, statistics, physics or engineering.

You need current US work authorisation, and the role does not sponsor visas.

Training lasts six months and mixes option theory with market making from day one. You spend the first four weeks with your cohort on options theory, trading systems and tools, then trade on the desk under a mentor with continuous coaching. You also learn the firm's codebase and help build it.

Graduate Quantitative Researcher, Austin

The cohort dates (February or August 2027), graduation window and US work rules are the same as for the Austin trader role.

After four weeks of cohort training you move into research projects tied to your desk's focus, under a mentor, with technical training and performance feedback. The posting asks for a programming language such as Python or C++ and strong pattern recognition.

Quantitative Intern, Austin

The internship runs for ten weeks from June 2027. You train with traders and researchers, compete in mock trading, rotate through trading and research, and take on project work in quantitative trading and research.

Classroom training covers options theory, market microstructure and quantitative decision-making. You get a mentor, sit on a live trading desk supporting their day-to-day trading and work on live problems facing the desks.

You need to be on a bachelor's in a quantitative field, at junior level or above, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028. You also need current US work authorisation (there is no visa sponsorship), Python or the will to learn it, and openness to a full-time role after you graduate.

Applications on the All Options website go to BambooHR, which the firm uses to manage hiring. On the Amsterdam Graduate Trader and Austin Graduate Quantitative Trader forms, the cover letter is a required field.

If an Amsterdam graduate application fails at any stage, All Options will not reconsider you for the same or a similar role for six months. The Austin postings do not have this rule.

The Amsterdam cover letter

Both Amsterdam graduate postings set the last sentence: "I want to become a trader because…". Finish it in your own words.

Do not summarise your CV. The Graduate Trader posting asks what excites you about the role beyond "markets", "fast-paced and dynamic environment", "applying theory in practice" and "problem-solving". Both Amsterdam postings ask for a motivation, experience or perspective that does not appear on your CV.

Austin applications

The Austin Graduate Quantitative Trader form asks yes or no whether you are authorised to work in the US and whether you will need visa sponsorship now or in the future.

When the roles went up

On BambooHR, the Austin graduate roles went up on 3 Aug 2026 and the internship on 1 Sep 2026. Both Amsterdam roles went up on 19 Oct 2026.

No official online assessment is documented.

The All Options privacy policy says recruitment includes interviews and tests for applicants. It names no test provider or format.

Train for the skills the postings name. The Amsterdam Graduate Trader, Austin Graduate Quantitative Trader and Quantitative Intern postings ask for exceptional numerical, problem-solving and analytical skills. The Amsterdam Graduate Quantitative Trader and Austin Graduate Quantitative Researcher postings ask for strong pattern recognition.

The Amsterdam postings say an interview process follows the CV and cover letter, with no detail on the rounds or what they cover.

What All Options looks for

• The Austin Graduate Quantitative Trader posting asks for a proactive, entrepreneurial mindset with a drive to innovate, and the Austin researcher and Amsterdam Graduate Trader postings use the same line.
• The firm says it trusts its people to think independently, challenge assumptions and dig deeper.
• Its people work as one team and do not compete among themselves.

The Amsterdam Graduate Trader and Austin Graduate Quantitative Trader forms ask how you heard about All Options. If you pick a campus event or a student organisation, they ask which one, from the lists below. The forms do not say whether All Options sponsors or attends any of them.

• Amsterdam Graduate Trader form (which also covers in-house events): Amsterdam Investment Club, Asset Econometrics, B&R Beurs, the Cambridge University Algorithmic Trading Society (CUATS), Faector, LED, Oxford Alpha Fund, S.B.V. Bona Fide, Vesting and VSAE.
• Austin Graduate Quantitative Trader form: Traders @ Michigan, NUFT, Traders @ Berkeley, the University of Chicago Trading Competition and University of Chicago ProjectLab.