OpenAI·Software Engineer

OpenAI Software Engineer interview experience

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The interview blended an architecture discussion with a coding challenge.

In the architecture part, I talked through a matching service and how it related to a queue system. I got stuck explaining how the matching service and request handler should be separated, and I also struggled with how to consume a widened bucket queue.

During the coding section, I was given a GPU II related problem and immediately ran into a bug that took me around twenty-five minutes to identify. That left only about five minutes for questions, which made the whole conversation feel compressed.

The biggest issue for me was communication. I could sense that my explanations weren’t landing

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