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Software Engineer Interview Experience

January 8, 2026
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Asked a fairly standard, non-LeetCode coding question, and then a system design component which consisted of being asked to design an online game system with many hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.

Questions

  • Design chess.com
  • Fix/optimize this code

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 49 interview experiences for the OpenAI Software Engineer role.

Success Rate

4%
Pass Rate

OpenAI's interview process for their Software Engineer roles is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive41%
Neutral35%
Negative24%

Candidates reported having good feelings for OpenAI's Software Engineer interview process.

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