THE PRACTICE LIBRARY
OpenAI interview practice questions
Work through the systems behind AI products: serving requests, scheduling work and handling failures. Pair a technical practice session with an example of how you made progress when the requirements were unclear.
Think it through.
Say it out loud.
A practice collection for OpenAI, with sourced system-design associations and general behavioral exercises. It is not an official question list.
19 questionsPick one to begin
- 01Disagree with a teammateCollaborationPractise
- 02Learn from a failureLearning from failurePractise
- 03Design an ad serving systemInfrastructure and platformPractise
- 04Design ChatGPTAI systemsPractise
- 05Design GitHub ActionsInfrastructure and platformPractise
- 06Design a cloud IDECollaborationPractise
- 07Design a job schedulerInfrastructure and platformPractise
- 08Design a metrics monitoring systemInfrastructure and platformPractise
- 09Design online chessCollaborationPractise
- 10Design a payment systemPayments and ledgersPractise
- 11Design photo storage with dedupStorage, files and linksPractise
- 12Design a text-to-video serviceAI systemsPractise
- 13Design a webhook delivery systemInfrastructure and platformPractise
- 14Lead without authorityInfluencePractise
- 15Take ownership of a problemOwnershipPractise
- 16Make progress with unclear requirementsDealing with ambiguityPractise
- 17Deliver under a tight deadlineDelivering resultsPractise
- 18Act on difficult customer feedbackCustomer focusPractise
- 19Make a difficult trade-offJudgementPractise
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Pick a question
Read the brief and choose what you want to work on.
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Talk it through
Explain your thinking. Respond to follow-ups. Draw when a design needs it.
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Find your next improvement
Use the feedback from your interview to decide what to practise next.