I applied through other source. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in July 2013
Interview
Got call from an in house recruiter and started the scheduling for over the phone technical interviews. Had 2 phone interviews (skipped the 3rd), invited to go onsite. Onsite I did 6 face to face interviews with different people. Once back home, 2 more phone interviews followed.
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Question 1
I can not talk about my interviews on site. My over the phone technical interviews were focused on front end development. Asked about HTML standards and behavioral issues between browsers, implement an accordion component from scratch, javascript scoping problems, etc.
a bit of a headache but overall okay once things were sorted. did not get confirmation of interview details and had to follow up more than once to confirm, but i think it was just that i got lost in the pile. understandable since i think there might have been a ton of applicants. the interviewers were polite but seemed harried
It was quite programming based. Anyway, it was not too hard. It was done in multiple rounds. The interviewer ask mainly about my experience in the field and asked questions about the work i had to do after i get selected.
The interview process at OpenAI was structured and thorough, spanning approximately three weeks. It comprised the following stages:
Recruiter Phone Screen (30 minutes): An initial conversation focusing on my background, motivations for applying, and alignment with OpenAI's missio
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Question 1
System Design: "Design a fault-tolerant web crawling service capable of handling 10 million requests per second."