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OpenAI Software Engineer Interview Experiences
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I got into the process through cold outreach plus a referral, and even that took a month or two of pushing before I got the first interview. After a pretty normal recruiter screen, I had two same-day…see more
I would not prep for this like normal LeetCode and call it a day. For coding, I would go deep on language internals, especially if you're using Python: iterators, generators, async, concurrency, that…see more
My read is that they care a lot about whether you can independently solve hard problems, not whether someone can mentor you into the answer. The process felt less standardized than a place like Meta,…see more
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I got sourced by a contractor first and then handed off to an actual OpenAI recruiter, which was a little unusual but pretty smooth. The process was a recruiter screen, then a first technical screen w…see more
I'd prep practical coding problems, not just classic LeetCode medium/hard. For system design, be ready for pretty normal prompts, but expect them to keep pushing on scale and pressure-testing your ass…see more
They seem to be hiring pretty broadly through Applied AI, which seemed to cover a huge part of the company outside the core modeling and research work. The process felt less standardized than big tech…see more
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