I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at OpenAI in Jan 2024
Interview
The most frustrating interview process I've ever had.
I was contacted via a recruiter. I applied and made it through the screening stage (two interviews) and did the next session, where they told me what to expect in the main loop. But then... crickets for four weeks and counting. During that time, and occasional pings from me, I got one reply from the coordinator that they were having headcount discussions and saying they would follow up, but they never did.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Screening stage is one system design and one coding problem. I don't remember what they were, it's been so long!
Recruiter screen then moved to a same day coding + architecture rounds. The people were friendly, but I found the questions difficult and hard to complete in the allotted time. The bar is very high these days, and short of perfection and strong internal referrals, the odds of success are low.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at OpenAI (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
1 hour coding interview using coderpad, I used Python language. code had to run and test cases had to pass
1 hour system design interview using excalidraw
Both back to back using Google meet
pick prompt b/w coding, ml coding, and applied statistics. applied statistics presented a compute scenario where knowledge of statistics provides practical insights into addressing the problem in the scenario that was presented
