OpenAI

The phone screen was surprisingly brief, lasting only about 20 minutes, but focused heavily on technical concepts. I was asked to design a distributed rate limiter for an LLM inference API, which I had practiced on PracHub during my prep. The techn

Had an initial screen with a recruiter. They described the teams that are hiring and what they look for, as well as outlining the rest of the process. It sounded like a good fit, but they didn’t think they had any remote opportunities.

The process is intense and highly focused on practical engineering rather than just theoretical algorithms. After the initial recruiter screen and a technical phone screen, there was a heavy emphasis on a "Learning Sample" or a take-home style projec