OpenAI·Software Engineer

OpenAI Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started with a recruiter screen where I was asked technical questions.

I was also prompted to discuss a project, and then the recruiter followed up with two questions.

What made it frustrating was that the recruiter seemed uncomfortable evaluating the technical content. They mispronounced terms and didn’t really catch how my project connected to the specific questions being asked. I could feel my answers being misunderstood rather than evaluated, and it put the tone of the whole process in a bad place early.

By the time the recruiter segment ended, it wasn’t just that I felt the questions were awkward—it was that I didn’t think they were set up to assess

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