OpenAI·Software Engineer

OpenAI Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Dec 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was approached by a recruiter about an opportunity, and even though the conversation started with some momentum, communication quickly went off the rails.

I kept getting slow or non-existent responses to questions I sent over email.

I still went ahead to see what the process was like. After chatting with the recruiter—pretty standard, mostly a check on what jobs I was interested in—I moved on to a systems design and a coding exercise. Neither round felt especially hard on the surface, but the systems design interview left a bad impression: the interviewer seemed distracted, working on other things while I was talking, and instead of walking through the design problem collaboratively, they handed me a Google doc to read and then asked me to

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