OpenAI·Software Engineer

OpenAI Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Feb 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process was pretty standard and time-bounded, taking about two weeks from start to finish.

I began with a call with a recruiter, then I moved into a conversation with the hiring manager. Those discussions felt fairly normal—mostly covering my interests and getting a sense of the role and what the team was dealing with.

The hiring manager conversation gave me the impression they were dealing with growth-related issues. After that, the technical part was comparatively straightforward: a coding exercise with an engineer. I finished the coding portion successfully, but I still didn’t move forward, and the final result was that they picked someone else.

Across the meetings, I kept

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