OpenAI Software Engineer interview experience

It was framed as if they were evaluating me seriously, but the whole thing left me with the impression they weren’t truly invested in hiring.

I went through both a coding round and an architecture round, and both questions were not especially challenging. The interviewer guided the pacing across parts, and I tried to balance talking through my thinking without just dumping answers onto the page. The coding question came in a chunked format where I started with the first part of a multi-part prompt, handled initial pieces smoothly with multiple test cases, and then got moved ahead to a later