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OpenAI

Research Engineer Interview Experience

OpenAI·Senior / L5
Result
Rejected
Interview date
3 months ago
Timespan
1 week
Difficulty
Difficult

Interview process

The problem was challenging. There were many conditions you had to satisfy and some aspects were a bit underspecified. The interviewers were stone faced and gave zero commentary. I ended up making a small bug which I wasted about 15 minutes trying to fix.

  • Technical interview

Interview tips

The problem is not algorithmically difficult. It's about reading the spec carefully, and writing a clean solution that satisfies all the conditions. It's a bit hard to prepare for this. Maintain a calm and clear state of mind, I guess.

Company culture

I didn't really get much because they gave little commentary.

Questions asked

Specific questions asked

Write code for a system that assigns tasks to humans and AI. The assignments have to satisfy a list of requirements.

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