OpenAI Software Developer interview questions

- 30 min phone call with the recruiter - question related to in memory database The interview question was very fair and actually much more practical than Leetcode. But I don't really know what the interviewer is looking for tbh

I was approached by a recruiter about an opportunity. While it was OpenAI's initiated converstation, the recruiter remained very non-communicative. Replies to my questions via email came either days later or never at all. I'm guessing there is some automation running against LinkedIn to scrape and reach out to potential fits. I proceeded with the process anyways just to see what it's like. Chatted with a recruiter - this was a very standard conversation to see which of the available jobs I'd be interested in. Next were the systems design and coding exercise. Neither of these were very hard, very typical for all tech companies these days. The systems design interviewer was barely paying attention and was clearly working on something else and chatting with others while I was talking. You could see him typing, smiling at odd times and not hearing my questions. He didn't even bother to talk through the design. problem, just handed you a google doc write up to read and start designing. The coding exercise was a lot more pleasant. The interviewer was very engaging and collaborative. She seemed more junior, but very sharp and I'm guessing a great person to work with. I didn't pass one or both of these interviews I'm guessing, but again complete silence from recruiter and a generated template email was sent to me a few days later to say they won't go to the next stage. I will recommend taking these interviews as practice interview for companies you'd actually want to work in. Don't expect a good process, but it is a good practice for other such interviews