OpenAI Software Engineer interview experience

I had two rounds: the first was about finding bugs in a code snippet. I only managed to identify three of the bugs, and there was one I missed that turned out to be a typo—changing a character in a way that looked subtle.

The second round was another plant infection problem, and I only completed three of the problems in that set. A big contributor was that I struggled with the IDE environment itself, which caused me to write incorrect code that I didn’t realize until it was too late. I remember thinking about how much time I’d spent preparing—almost two weeks—yet in the interview I felt