OpenAI·Software Engineer

OpenAI Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Oct 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and the process dragged on for weeks—around four weeks in my case—and it felt genuinely difficult.

The sequence was pretty clearly laid out from the beginning: a recruiter screening, then an online coding challenge delivered through HackerRank.

After that, I went into a one-on-one coding interview where I was asked to do debugging work related to neural networks. There was also a hiring manager screen focused on the kind of projects I planned to work on if I joined.

The onsite was the toughest part. It combined a coding interview with systems design, a research discussion, and an ML-focused interview. Even though everyone was professional, the difficulty level was high enough that I

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