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
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a CI/CD pipeline for deploying updates to a mission-critical Kubernetes cluster that serves model inference, ensuring zero downtime and the ability to roll back instantly if error rates spike.
#GitOps
#ArgoCD
#Canary Deployments
#Observability
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a CI/CD pipeline for deploying a microservice that serves a new machine learning model to millions of users, ensuring zero downtime.
#Deployment Strategies
#Canary Releases
#Rollbacks
#Testing
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain how you would optimize Docker image builds for a massive Python monorepo to reduce CI times from 45 minutes to under 10 minutes.
#Docker
#CI/CD
#Caching
#Monorepo
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How do you implement blue-green deployments for a stateful application backed by a relational database?
#Deployment Strategies
#Databases
#Stateful Applications
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