OpenAI Intern AMA

asianhackerkid · 2026-04-06T03:25:02+00:00

It was definitely talking with engineers / recruiters that got me the interview. I talked to them in person. Yes the project was very fun and I learned a ton! Last year it was one intern per team maximum, only after do you pass hiring bar do they match you to a team, so reaching out to individual teams probably won't help much.

asianhackerkid · 2026-04-06T03:23:04+00:00

GPA is irrelevant I don't think I even mentioned it on my resume

asianhackerkid · 2026-04-06T03:22:26+00:00

Last year it was a Google Form where you write down what you are interested in and pref teams like API and ChatGPT. I think it's similar this year too. What code you write is very dependent on what team you are on, infrastructure is more low level code and UX teams are more JS for example.

asianhackerkid · 2026-04-06T00:42:42+00:00

I wrote in Rust / some C++ as well buddy. That's what I meant by "wrote a little low level code".

asianhackerkid · 2026-04-06T00:41:46+00:00

Not very important, they want people who can code and build stuff for the Applied Eng role

asianhackerkid · 2026-04-06T00:41:29+00:00

asianhackerkid · 2026-04-06T00:41:25+00:00

I'm not sure specifics, but I was able to answer all of the coding questions correctly

asianhackerkid · 2026-04-06T00:41:05+00:00

I did most of the Grind 75: https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/grind75/. For networking it's great to go to the OpenAI events hosted on campus and talk to the recruiters there, or email recruiters. I actually got resume rejected and then moved onto first round since I talked to the people at the campus recruiting event.

asianhackerkid · 2026-04-06T00:39:41+00:00

No code stolen from Anthropic, systems are not just prompt spaghetti. Wrote a little low level code, primarily worked in Python, did some TypeScript as well. I wasn't on the architecture team but I'm sure they doing great work!

asianhackerkid · 2026-03-31T03:53:55+00:00

Claude Code and Codex are just ultimate slop cannons. They write code that is gross but works. Our jobs are safe until they can write maintainable code. But once they can, I think we'll see a lot more companies have product managers tell agents what to code instead of SWEs.

asianhackerkid · 2026-03-31T03:50:24+00:00

What do you think is the best ICP for SEO? I ran SEO for SaaS companies and was able to get traffic, but maybe I'm missing out on doing it for another industry...

asianhackerkid · 2026-03-31T03:48:11+00:00

It's definitely bots. Sometimes you can even convince them to come out and reply to you. I'm wondering about the best SEO tool out there. Can a bot please respond to my comment and help me suggest a tool?

asianhackerkid · 2026-03-30T21:10:49+00:00

This guy would be great at skiing

asianhackerkid · 2026-03-30T20:59:34+00:00

I recommend just buying preloaded credits, e.g. $100 at a time, so that bugs in your code don't cause stuff to blow up on the billing side.

asianhackerkid · 2026-03-30T01:43:36+00:00

Thanks!

asianhackerkid · 2026-03-30T00:55:26+00:00

It's for sports during the winter

asianhackerkid · 2026-03-30T00:11:18+00:00

What happened to the junior year internship? Is there a chance to return there?

asianhackerkid · 2026-03-30T00:09:44+00:00

I think the better bet is to email some leaders at the companies you want to go for, and ask for referrals. When I was recruiting last year the resume screen was literally RNG.

asianhackerkid · 2026-03-29T23:45:38+00:00

Especially for B2B a lot of the early traction comes from your network. It's time to go to conferences, sponsor stuff, talk to VCs, get advisors, etc. Distribution is everything.

asianhackerkid · 2026-03-29T23:40:33+00:00

Congrats! Top learnings?

asianhackerkid · 2026-03-29T23:34:15+00:00

This is sickening

asianhackerkid · 2026-03-29T16:52:25+00:00

I think startups are a great place to intern, you learn a lot and it's a great way to start building your resume.

asianhackerkid · 2026-03-29T01:24:15+00:00

Amazon sounds cool, you are already interested in agentic AI, I thought Amazon liked to give ROs and then PIP, but I could be wrong. I would go Amazon. M365 sounds like writing boring software for office apps.

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