Reddit Experience · 2023 Q3

Name and shame: OpenAI

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Saw the Tesla post and thought I'd post about my experience with openAI. Had a recruiter for OpenAI reach out about a role. Went throught their interview loop: 1. They needed a week to create an inter

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Saw the Tesla post and thought I'd post about my experience with openAI. Had a recruiter for OpenAI reach out about a role. Went throught their interview loop: 1. They needed a week to create an interview loop. In the meantime, they weren't willing to answer any questions about how their profit-share equity works. 2. 4-8 hour unpaid take home assignment, creating a solution using the openAI APIs amongst other methods, then writing a paper of what methods were tried and why the openAI API was finally chosen. 3. 5-person panel interview The 5-person panel insterview is where things went astray. I was interviewing for a solutions role, but when I get to the panel interview, it a full stack software engineering interview? Somehow, in the midst of the interview process, OpenAI decided that the job should be a full stack software engineering job, instead of a solutions engineering job. No communication prior to the 5 panel interview; no reimbursement for the time spent on the take home. I realize openAI might be really interesting to work at, but the entire interview process really showed how immature their hiring process is. Expect it to be like interviewing at a startup, not a 500+ company worth 12B. Edit: I don't know why everyone thinks OpenAI pays well.... most offers are 250+500, where the 500 is a profit share, not a regular vesting RSU. Heads up, even with the millions in ARR, OpenAI is not making any profit, not to mention the litany of litigation headed their way.
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