OpenAI interview notes, page 59 of 67

“This tripped me up a bit because my first instinct was to think about caching layers before I even got to the actual problem.” 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.

“Classic question but still hard to nail in 45 minutes.” 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.

“Knew this problem but still fumbled the sorting step at first.” 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.

“This is one of those questions where the scope is so wide you can easily spend 20 minutes on matchmaking and then realize you haven't touched clocks at all.” 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 the one I actually had a real opinion on.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at OpenAI, Take-home Assignment round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the kind of question where you think you know it until you're actually in it.” 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.

“Spent most of the time on the workflow: how a user submits code, how it gets routed to a VM, results coming back.” 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.

“The tricky part was adapting the recursive pattern from returning a number to building a string.” 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.

“The checkpoint-not-being-a-live-reference thing tripped me up at first.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at OpenAI, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The interviewer ran my code and I got a cryptic version-counter error.” 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.