Recruiter screen then moved to a same day coding + architecture rounds. The people were friendly, but I found the questions difficult and hard to complete in the allotted time. The bar is very high these days, and short of perfection and strong internal referrals, the odds of success are low.
Difficult interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at OpenAI in May 2022
Interview
Applied online. The steps are: - Recruiter Screening - Online Coding Challenge on HackerRank - 1:1 Coding Interview, Debugging neural networks - Hiring Manager Screen, talk about planned projects if you join - Onsite - coding interview, systems design, research discussion, ML interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
debugging forwards/backwards with multiprocessing for splitting large neural networks across machines
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at OpenAI (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
1 hour coding interview using coderpad, I used Python language. code had to run and test cases had to pass
1 hour system design interview using excalidraw
Both back to back using Google meet
pick prompt b/w coding, ml coding, and applied statistics. applied statistics presented a compute scenario where knowledge of statistics provides practical insights into addressing the problem in the scenario that was presented
