OpenAI Software Engineer interview experience

The format was very “start coding,” and I struggled with the fact that there was no time management on their side; I ended up not having enough time left to circle back to questions or anything I wanted to clarify.

The core theme of the task was concurrency: I was expected to write a concurrent or parallel web crawler. The way the problem was presented made it clear they cared about how I handled parallelism and execution flow, not just getting something that worked sequentially. By the end, the lack of time to discuss made it feel like I couldn’t fully show how I was thinking beyond the