OpenAI·Software Engineer

OpenAI Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

United StatesPosted Sep 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I finished an interview for an ML engineer role and it was intense in the best and worst ways.

We went deep into cutting-edge ML topics, especially around large language models and multimodal AI. The questions and scenarios felt hard and specific, and I could tell they expected more than surface-level familiarity.

A big part of the discussion was also my thinking about AI ethics and my vision for where the field should go. That part surprised me in a good way because it wasn’t treated like a quick checkbox—it felt integrated into the technical conversation.

I didn’t get an offer, but the rejection didn’t feel like I was unprepared. It felt more like the bar was genuinely high and the

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