Learn to think like a desk.
A term-long mentorship for first-year university students in engineering, computer science, commerce and mathematics. You work with someone who trades, researches or builds at Optilic, on your actual work: your maths, your code, your models, your habits.
Twelve weeks, one mentor, real standards.
Fortnightly one-on-ones
Six sessions with your mentor across the term. You bring work; they bring the standard the desk holds itself to. Expect your assumptions to be questioned kindly and precisely.
Work reviewed line by line
Between sessions you submit one piece of real work: a proof, a program, a model, an analysis. It comes back marked the way we mark each other's.
The path into the firm
The reading list we actually use, mock interviews before recruiting season, and a direct line to the first-year internship program for those who show the level.
The shape of the work.
The program lives where these curves do: probability, calculus, computation. If they make you curious rather than tired, you will fit right in.
LISSAJOUS 3:4, PHASE π/2
LOGARITHMIC SPIRAL, b = 0.18
RANDOM WALK · 400 STEPS · SEEDED
One term. One price. No upsells.
- Six one-on-one sessions with a working trader, researcher or engineer
- Six pieces of your work reviewed in depth between sessions
- The desk's reading list and problem sets, with model answers discussed live
- One mock interview before recruiting season, with written feedback
- Full refund inside the first fortnight if it is not what you hoped
Payments are being set up. Register your interest below, or email operations@optilic.com and we will invoice you when your place is confirmed. No money changes hands before that.
Payment is handled by Stripe on a secure checkout page. We never see your card details. The mentorship program is an educational service and is separate from job and internship applications, which are always free.
Register your interest.
Places are confirmed after a short conversation, so start here. This costs nothing and commits you to nothing.