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OpenAI interview questions

OpenAI interview questions

643 questions

simple insert/select/delete, but structured like an lsm tree using a memtable and tombstones instead of just wiping records.

Behavioral: why OpenAI, AI safety views, 0-to-1 work, feedback, defining success

Design a text-to-video GPU job scheduler with one GPU per task and fair queueing

643 questions

simple insert/select/delete, but structured like an lsm tree using a memtable and tombstones instead of just wiping records.

Behavioral: why OpenAI, AI safety views, 0-to-1 work, feedback, defining success

Design a text-to-video GPU job scheduler with one GPU per task and fair queueing

Design coffee-shop card payments with tips and nightly batch settlement at scale

Design power grid device monitoring over an unreliable public internet

Implement a GPU credit ledger with expiring grants and out-of-order operations

Spreadsheet engine with setCell/getCell, cell references, and cycle detection

Plan a Free-Trial Analysis and Defend Its Recommendations

Project Deep Dive: Proving Technical Depth and Cross-Team Alignment

First-Release Scope for an AI Voice Pod Installed in Public Venues

GPU Credit Ledger: Spend Earliest-Expiring Credits First, Stop on Overdraft

Design a Cloud IDE That Edits and Runs Code in Browser-Accessible Workspaces

Design an Online Multiplayer Chess Service with Real-Time Moves

Count Events in a Trailing 15-Minute Window with a Fixed-Size Ring Buffer

Debug a Small PyTorch Transformer with Four Bugs, Then Add a KV Cache

Design a Chat Assistant Inference Service: Streaming, Free-Tier Limits, GPU Scheduling

Design a Multi-Tenant Cloud IDE: Isolation, Workspaces, Run/Build, Failure Modes

Design a Multi-Tenant Enterprise RAG Assistant: Hybrid Retrieval, Reranking, ACLs

Design a Payment System: Holds and Captures, Batch Charges, Reconciliation, Idempotency

Design a Sora-Style Video Generation Service with Fair Queueing and Cancellation

Design a Text-to-Video Generation Service: GPU Scheduling, Failures, Traffic Bursts

Design an Online Chess Platform: Elo Matchmaking, WebSocket Moves, Game Clocks

Design Photo Storage with SHA-256 Content Deduplication and Safe Deletion

Design Power-Grid Device Monitoring over Unreliable Networks: Dedup and Late Events

Fault-Tolerant Work Queue with Leases, Fencing Tokens and DAG Task Dependencies