OpenAI Software Engineer Interview Questions

Anyone here interviewed for the OpenAI Senior Support Engineer role? Looking for insights 🙏 Trying to understand what to expect, particularly around: * The **vibe coding round** * **Troubleshooting /

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Although I failed, I still wanted to give feedback. The main reason I failed was because I wasn't thinking clearly enough. I had two phone interviews, one on Software Development (SD) and one on codin

Just finished my interview, so I'm reminiscing. System design: multi-tenant CI/CD. The question description was the same as one I saw in a previous interview: Design a multi-tenant CI/CD system which

This post was last edited by Anonymous on 2025-09-25 08:49. General SDE: Has anyone encountered this prompt before? This will be a coding interview, and the task will be a smaller-scale version of wha

These past few days waiting for the results have been agonizing, so I'm sharing my interview experience to vent. I saw someone share that they received an offer first thing Saturday morning; does this

Store Interview SD: CI/CD from the forum, mainly focusing on how to achieve exactly-once execution under the premise of Fault Tolerant and Scalability. Coding: Machine Tree to count and topology, orig

I crammed for two or three days preparing for the interview, but none of the questions were on the topic, haha. The coding question was an OOD (Object-Oriented Learning) exercise: design a logic for a

I've been preparing for open AI interviews recently and have summarized most of the frequently asked questions I've seen. Generally speaking, it is very fragmented, so I summarize it to save everyone

I've been preparing for open AI interviews recently and have summarized most of the frequently asked questions I've seen. Generally speaking, it is very fragmented, so I summarize it to save everyone

The Challenge You have an old codebase for a chat service. It supports different bots (AwayBot, MeetBot, TacoBot) that react to specific commands. Right now, all the code is mixed together in one b

The Challenge Design a CI/CD system that is scalable and can handle crashes. This system serves many different customers (multi-tenant). It must run workflows defined by users whenever they push co

Problem Overview You are building a tool to find the first version of a software library that has a specific feature. This problem tests how well you can parse text, use **Binary Search**, and hand

Problem Requirements Design a simple payment processor architecture. This system handles payment requests. It sends them to outside processors (like a bank) and returns the result. The process has

Problem Statement You need to write a Python class that acts as an IPv4 iterator. This class will let you loop through IP addresses one by one. The interview problem adds difficulty in steps: first

Problem Statement You need to build a system that manages a block of computer memory. Your tool should work like `malloc()` and `free()` in C. It handles asking for memory (allocation) and giving i

Problem Statement You need to build a simple in-memory database. Think of it as a simplified version of SQL. You will build this system step-by-step. It needs to handle creating tables, adding data

The Challenge You need to build a simple spreadsheet system called `OpenSheet`. This is like a mini version of Excel. It must handle cell names (like `A1`, `B2`), numbers, and math formulas. The ma

Designing the GPT-3 Playground System We are going to design the high-level architecture for a new website. I will provide a link to a shared drawing space in case we need to make diagrams. Please l

Project Requirements You need to design a Webhook delivery system that can handle a massive amount of traffic. This system allows users to register a "callback URL." When a specific event happens,