Great if you live for your work - Anonymous employee OpenAI Employee Review

5.0
30 Jul 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Extremely talented coworkers, extremely interesting research, every day is different, freedom

Cons

Extremely demanding, high pace environment, burn out culture

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5.0
31 May 2026
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Pros

Amazing mission-driven and high-performing culture

Cons

Speed is dizzying; things moving insanely fast on all dimensions all at once.

1.0
27 May 2026
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Pros

good pay and benefits, some smart people

Cons

The leadership is extremely reactive. Instead of having a plan and sticking to it, they change the course where the competition blows. It's basically like they dont trust their own plan and trust competition instead. No culture, it's just a rat race. Work life balance as you should expect in a cult like environment is non existent. You are indefinitely on call to fix the issues other internal teams break. hire the brightest to baby sit AI and do support work.

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