Ich habe mich über einen Personalvermittler beworben. Der Vorgang dauerte 2 Wochen. Vorstellungsgespräch absolviert im Dez. 2024 bei OpenAI
Vorstellungsgespräch
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
Fragen im Vorstellungsgespräch [2]
Frage 1
Systems design: Given a simple UI with some user preferences implement the system. The UI is already given to you so you need to work on APIs and server side of things
Coding test: Given a simple mockup implement that UI. Some CSS is already provided and an API to fetch the data also exists. The recruiter prep doc talked about structuring the code well, making sure all functions work, write CSS and write tests. There is no way you can do it all in 1 hour, so it's probably best to ask the interviewer what they expect
This whole process dragged on for about a month, much longer than I anticipated. It kicked off with a technical phone screen, where I was asked about data structures and algorithms. The DSA questions were tough, especially one regarding matrix traversal. Mid-way through the coding round, it clicked that I had tackled this exact problem on PracHub just days before, which helped me structure my answer. The onsite included system design questions that were challenging, but I didn’t end up receiving an offer. Overall, it was an intense experience.
Fragen im Vorstellungsgespräch [1]
Frage 1
Given an n x n matrix where each row and each column is sorted in ascending order, return the kth smallest element in the matrix. Walk through both the min-heap approach and the binary-search-on-value approach, compare their time and space complexity, and discuss which one you'd prefer for very large matrices that don't fit in memory.
2 rounds phone screen(1 coding + 1 system design) and 4 rounds onsite interviews(1 coding + 1 design + 1 deep dive + 1 behavior).
general good experience but need fast coding
Ich habe mich auf anderem Weg beworben. Vorstellungsgespräch absolviert im Mai 2026 bei OpenAI (Dublin, Dublin)
Vorstellungsgespräch
Two hiring manager interviews. Followed by a technical interview on coding and system design. Asked to design a devbox system (CI/CD pipeline). For the coding roundm I was asked to design the LRU/LFU cache.
Fragen im Vorstellungsgespräch [1]
Frage 1
I was asked to design the LRU/LFU cache.
design a devbox system (CI/CD pipeline).
