Archived Interview Experiences
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OpenAI Phone Screen Fail
Interviewed: Jan 2026
Just finished the interview, sharing a data point.
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Anthropic phone screen
Interviewed: Jan 2026
I just got the rejection this morning. The recruiter didn’t share any feedback at all. Both the coding and system design rounds didn’t go very smoothly. For coding, I had a bug at...
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Anthropic OA Recipe Manager
Interviewed: Jan 2026
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OpenAI Research Engineer
Interviewed: Jan 2026
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Phone Screen on N-ary Tree Outer View
Interviewed: Dec 2025
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Onsite Loop with Construct Quad Tree, Eventual Safe Nodes, and Stock Alert System Design
Interviewed: Dec 2025
My onsite included two coding rounds, one system design round, and one behavioral round.
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Phone Screen on Bracketed Substring Matching
Interviewed: Dec 2025
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Phone Screen on Customer Revenue Tracking
Interviewed: Dec 2025
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Phone Screen on Indented Directory Printing
Interviewed: Dec 2025
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Phone Screen on Cheapest Flights Within K Stops
Interviewed: Dec 2025
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Phone Screen on Exclusive Time of Functions
Interviewed: Dec 2025
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Phone Screen on 2D Convex Function Minimum
Interviewed: Dec 2025
The screen started with a brief discussion of my past experience and then moved into a single coding problem.
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