OpenAI Software Engineer
Company: OpenAI
Role: Backend Engineer
Interview Month: Feb 2026
Interview Round: Phone Screen
YOE: 22
Outcome: Rejected
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Interviewed: Feb 2026
Interviewed: Feb 2026
Interviewed: Feb 2026
Interviewed: Feb 2026
This was the round between the OA and the final loop. Most of the time went to coding, and I had to write my own test cases.
Interviewed: Feb 2026
Interviewed: Feb 2026
My onsite had a simple first coding round, a second coding round that was closer to OOD, a behavioral round with the hiring manager, and a system design round.
Interviewed: Feb 2026
The HR call basically had no real substance. The interviewer just followed a memo and asked questions. Just review the culture page in advance and that’s enough.
Interview Questions
Question 1
Just questions from a memo
Interviewed: Feb 2026
Interviewed in February and received an offer. I’ll share details about the onsite experience later.
Interviewed: Feb 2026
Out-of-order operations: Methods can be called in any chronological order. get_balance() must reconstruct the correct state at the queried timestamp regardless of call order. Expir...
Interviewed: Feb 2026
Which one is Anthropic Q2, file dedupe or lru cache?
Interviewed: Feb 2026
Got a referral from a friend for a pretraining infra role. On Monday I got an HR reachout and scheduled a quick call. At first everything was normal: went through my work experienc...
Interview Questions
Question 1
AI safety
Interviewed: Feb 2026
I interviewed with Anthropic using CodeSignal.
Interview Questions
Question 1
Implement web crawler
Question 2
LRU Cache
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