OpenAI interview questions

Describe relevant PM experience

Companies: OpenAI

Experiment Design (A/B Testing) · Metrics & KPIs

Last reported Mar 2025

Design animal translator and premium tier

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Growth & Monetization

Last reported Mar 2025

Design a Chatbot with Multiple Threads

Create a design for a chatbot system that can handle multiple conversation threads simultaneously. Consider aspects such as user interaction, thread management, and scalability.

Companies: OpenAI

Last reported Mar 2025

API related question . Had to create a function by using the response of an API

Companies: OpenAI

Last reported Feb 2025

Design an online real-time chess game

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Multiplayer Game Systems · Real-Time Systems

Last reported Jan 2025

Implement IPv4 and CIDR iterators

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Bit Manipulation · Data Structure Design

Last reported Jan 2025

Tell me a time you helped an engineer promote

Companies: OpenAI, Amazon, DoorDash, Etsy +3

Last reported Jan 2025

What are the signals you're looking for if an engineer is ready for a promo

Companies: OpenAI, Amazon, Atlassian, Meta +2

Last reported Jan 2025

Design Spreadsheet with Formulas

Design a spreadsheet API where cells can contain values or formulas that reference other cells, automatically handling updates when dependencies change. Implement dependency…

Companies: OpenAI

Last reported Dec 2024

Coding test: Given a simple mockup implement that UI. Some CSS is already provided and an API to fetch the data also exists. The recruiter prep doc talked about structuring the code well, making sure all functions work, write CSS and write tests. There is no way you can do it all in 1 hour, so it's probably best to ask the interviewer what they expect

Coding test: Given a simple mockup implement that UI. Some CSS is already provided and an API to fetch the data also exists. The recruiter…

Companies: OpenAI

Last reported Dec 2024

Systems design: Given a simple UI with some user preferences implement the system. The UI is already given to you so you need to work on APIs and server side of things

Systems design: Given a simple UI with some user preferences implement the system. The UI is already given to you so you need to work…

Companies: OpenAI

Last reported Dec 2024

Design a Foursquare-like App

Design a location-based mobile app similar to Foursquare that allows users to discover nearby Points of Interest (POIs) by submitting their coordinates and receiving a…

Companies: OpenAI, Meta

Last reported Aug 2024

Hard Roadmap Prioritization Call: Competing Options, Criteria and Outcome

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Ambiguity & Decision Making · Prioritization & Tradeoffs

Last reported Jul 2024

How would you design a scalable and efficient system for training a large language model, considering both computational and data constraints?

Companies: OpenAI

Last reported Feb 2024

Teaching a Layperson What Deep Learning Is and How It Works

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Communication & Stakeholders · Neural Networks & Training

Last reported Dec 2023

change directory via i.e. bash -> write a function given current directory and a new location return the new path

Companies: OpenAI

Last reported Feb 2023

LRU and scarping web. They will prefer you to start from a single thread to multi-threads.

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Last reported Jun 2020

- design chess.com, fix/optimize this code

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10x the model capability, 10x the cost. Go.

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2+ part code debugging session

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A customer wants to use AI to solve a specific business problem. What questions would you ask before designing anything, and how would you approach it?

A customer wants to use AI to solve a specific business problem. What questions would you ask before designing anything, and how would you approach…

Companies: OpenAI

APPLIED SCIENTIST

Companies: OpenAI, Amazon, eBay

ML Coding · Model Evaluation · Natural Language Processing