OpenAI interview notes, page 23 of 67

“This tripped me up more than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at OpenAI, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This felt manageable at first and then quietly became a lot.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at OpenAI, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Prepped this one from a video walkthrough and it paid off.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at OpenAI, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is basically a full system design in one question.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at OpenAI, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one is deceptively massive.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at OpenAI, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic question but I always fumble the 'how you reacted' part because I focus too much on explaining the situation.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at OpenAI, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“They wanted more than just 'it was assigned to me.' Had to actually explain the reasoning behind picking it, which I wasn't fully prepared for.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at OpenAI, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the data model and probably spent too long there.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at OpenAI, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I fumbled around for a bit trying to remember how L1 differs from L2 in terms of gradients and what that means for a network you'd actually train.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at OpenAI, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the event loop stuff but fumbled a bit explaining why JS is single-threaded by design versus just a limitation.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at OpenAI, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.