OpenAI Software Engineer Interview Experience — Positive Feedback, Rejected for a Better Background Match

Interview experience for an OpenAI team-specific hire. Just giving a little back to the forum.

Phone screen:

• Coding: GPU Credit 2
• System Design: Payment System

About a week after the phone screen I had an HM chat, and after that I moved on to the onsite.

Onsite:

• Coding: Plant Infection
• System Design: Design Steam
• Deep Dive
• HM Chat (with a neighboring team)

The Deep Dive and the HM Chat were both pretty standard. We mostly talked about projects I had done before, technical decisions, and some behavioral questions.

Overall the interview feedback was positive, but since this was hiring for an infra team, the team ended up running into a candidate whose background was a better match. After waiting about three weeks I got the rejection letter.

That's the whole process. Good luck everyone.