OpenAI
Leading AI research laboratory developing state-of-the-art foundation models like GPT-4.
5 Rounds
~21 Days
Very Hard
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.
Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Data Scientist
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System Design
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hard
Design a telemetry data pipeline to capture, process, and analyze user feedback (thumbs up/down and text corrections) on ChatGPT responses in real-time to trigger alerts for model degradation.
#Real-time Processing
#Streaming Architecture
#Data Pipelines
Data Scientist
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System Design
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hard
Design a system to monitor, detect, and alert on API latency degradation specifically for enterprise customers using provisioned throughput, ensuring a false positive rate of less than 1%.
#Monitoring
#Anomaly Detection
#Enterprise SLAs
Data Scientist
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System Design
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hard
Design the telemetry and analytics pipeline to track token usage, latency, and error rates for the OpenAI API in real-time.
#Streaming Architecture
#Telemetry
#Scalability
Data Scientist
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System Design
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hard
How would you design a system to detect and mitigate prompt injection attacks at scale before they hit the main inference cluster?
#Security
#Classification
#System Architecture
Data Scientist
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System Design
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medium
Design an analytics dashboard backend for OpenAI Enterprise customers to monitor their organization's usage, costs, and ROI.
#Data Modeling
#Multi-tenancy
#OLAP
Data Scientist
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System Design
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hard
Design a data pipeline to continuously update the knowledge cutoff of an LLM using web search data and news feeds.
#Data Pipelines
#Web Scraping
#Data Quality
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