The interview had 2 components: a phone screen loop and an onsite loop. For the onsite, my recruiter kept changing what interviews I had, and in the end, they scheduled a different interview from what they told me. On top of that, one of my interviewers asked me to design a database for my programming interview and gave me no instructions, no context, and no test cases. This was perhaps the worst interview I have ever done, and it felt like he was intentionally gatekeeping candidates from joining the company.
This whole process dragged on for about a month, much longer than I anticipated. It kicked off with a technical phone screen, where I was asked about data structures and algorithms. The DSA questions were tough, especially one regarding matrix traversal. Mid-way through the coding round, it clicked that I had tackled this exact problem on PracHub just days before, which helped me structure my answer. The onsite included system design questions that were challenging, but I didn’t end up receiving an offer. Overall, it was an intense experience.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Given an n x n matrix where each row and each column is sorted in ascending order, return the kth smallest element in the matrix. Walk through both the min-heap approach and the binary-search-on-value approach, compare their time and space complexity, and discuss which one you'd prefer for very large matrices that don't fit in memory.
2 rounds phone screen(1 coding + 1 system design) and 4 rounds onsite interviews(1 coding + 1 design + 1 deep dive + 1 behavior).
general good experience but need fast coding
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un'altra fonte. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso OpenAI (Dublino, Dublino) nel mese di mag 2026
Colloquio
Two hiring manager interviews. Followed by a technical interview on coding and system design. Asked to design a devbox system (CI/CD pipeline). For the coding roundm I was asked to design the LRU/LFU cache.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
I was asked to design the LRU/LFU cache.
design a devbox system (CI/CD pipeline).