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OpenAI Data Scientist Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a OpenAI Data Scientist interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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A/B Testing & ExperimentationStart here. 11 questions · ~99 min
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SQL & Data Manipulation9 questions · ~81 min
Detect Anomalies in Event StreamsHard
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Identify missing, duplicate, null, and out-of-range events across distributed streams with an index-friendly PostgreSQL query.

missing valuesindexessqlOpenAI
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Product Sense10 questions · ~90 min
North-Star for Codex and GuardrailsHard
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Define Codex north-star and feature metrics, then distinguish useful code suggestions from superficial acceptance and activity.

Metricsfeature evaluationdeveloper toolsOpenAI
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Statistics & Probability9 questions · ~81 min
Compute KL DivergenceHard
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Compute forward, reverse, and optionally symmetric KL divergence for two discrete random variables.

Distributionsstatistics fundamentalsprobabilityOpenAI
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Behavioral & Leadership4 questions · ~36 min
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More topics7 questions · ~63 min
Why Calibration Plots Are NoisyHard
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Explain why Average Calibration Error plotted across epochs can fluctuate noisily and how to diagnose whether the pattern is meaningful.

performance evaluationCalibrationevaluation metricsOpenAI
Customer Acquisition Metrics LifecycleHard
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Define the customer acquisition lifecycle, calculate CAC by channel and cohort, and assess payback using LTV to guide investment.

CACltv/cacacquisitionOpenAI
Mining Effective Medical Training DataHard
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Design a compliant pipeline that discovers, filters, labels, and evaluates high-value training data from medical sources.

data securityactive learningdata ingestionOpenAI
Classifier for Human DataHard
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Design, train, evaluate, and responsibly deploy a classifier using human-generated data.

model selectionfairnessSupervised LearningOpenAI
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