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Asked at OpenAI, Amazon, Atlassian + 6 more • 3 days ago
Tell me about a time when you solved a complex problem and how you went about it.
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Asked at OpenAI, Amazon, Atlassian + 15 more • 4 days ago
What is the project you are most proud of?
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Asked at OpenAI, Anduril, Apple + 9 more • 3 days ago
Tell me about your past projects.
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Asked at OpenAI • 5 days ago
Why do you want to work at OpenAI?
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Asked at OpenAI • 3 months ago
You launched a feature and user behavior changed, how do you define success metrics?
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Asked at OpenAI • a year ago
What parts of OpenAI's mission statement resonate with you?
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Asked at OpenAI, Nvidia • a year ago
What is overfitting or underfitting? Which models are most likely to experience this, and why?
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Asked at OpenAI, Google, LendingClub + 1 more • a year ago
Explain Deep Learning to a non-technical audience.
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Asked at OpenAI • a year ago
Explain deep reinforcement learning.
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Asked at OpenAI • 3 months ago
When experimentation is constrained, how do you make decisions using imperfect or historical data?
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