OpenAI Software Engineer interview experience

I was contacted via a recruiter and made it through what sounded like the screening stage, which included two interviews. After that next session, they told me what to expect in the main loop.

Then everything stalled. I sat through four weeks of silence with occasional pings from me, and the only replies I got were vague messages from a coordinator about headcount discussions and promises to follow up. But the follow-up never came.

It felt like I was stuck in limbo after doing real interview steps, without any real feedback or clear timeline. I never ended up getting to a resolved decision,