OpenAI·Software Engineer

OpenAI Software Engineer interview experience

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California, PAPosted Feb 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied and the process ended up taking a long time—about two weeks for the fastest version I saw, but my own timeline stretched closer to a few months overall.

What stood out most was how long I waited between stages. I spent weeks just getting scheduled for a recruiter call, then more time before the first technical interview, and I even had to talk to the recruiter again before things moved toward an onsite. After that, there was still another gap before the final decision.

The interviews themselves were intense but, at least intellectually, rewarding. I was asked a mix of algorithmic and coding questions alongside system design. There were also problem-solving conversations that leaned into AI ethics and research, with discussion of how that

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