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OpenAI Software Engineer Interview Questions

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

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CodingStart here. 13 questions · ~131 min
Coding: Infectious Disease SimulationMedium
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Process disease status events to compute infection duration, immunity, stability timing, and death status.

ArraysAlgorithmsedge casesOpenAI
Design a Streaming AI Text UIMedium
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Model submitted prompts and streamed AI response chunks with a small deterministic state machine.

streamingapi integrationCodingOpenAI
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System Design13 questions · ~131 min
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Execution13 questions · ~131 min
General Coding and System DesignMedium
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Prepare to solve general coding and systems design problems while explaining trade-offs, assumptions, and implementation decisions clearly.

system designExecutiondelivery managementOpenAI
Server-Side Player TimingHard
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Design an execution plan for reliable player timing when client clocks and timestamps cannot be trusted.

automated testingExecutionfault toleranceOpenAI
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Pipelines3 questions · ~30 min
Design distributed DFS with fault toleranceHard
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Assesses your ability to design distributed search with correctness under failures and efficient pruning.

fault toleranceOpenAI
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SQL & Data Manipulation3 questions + 3 drills · ~60 min
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Behavioral & Leadership4 questions · ~40 min
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More topics1 question · ~10 min
Prevent Bot Message AccessMedium
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Assesses security and access control design for a chat or messaging system.

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