OpenAI·Software Engineer

OpenAI Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Posted May 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied for a role partly to study, and the recruiter told me they were really in need of frontend engineers because they had UI features they wanted to add.

The recruiter seemed nice, but the call itself felt a bit off—on Google Meet, they kept their video off while I had mine on.

The technical portion had two back-to-back screens. The first was refactoring existing code, and the second was systems design. What stood out was that neither interviewer felt like a frontend specialist, and the questions ended up being generic full-stack problems that didn’t match the frontend angle they’d emphasized. The first interviewer even asked which programming language I wanted to use, which made less sense to me given the supposed frontend fit. In the

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