model research and developer platform
What will OpenAI ask you? Candidates who describe the loop in public usually mention behavioral stories, coding or functional work, system design, and a conversation about how you operate. This page opens the generator on OpenAI. Choose a round and you get ten commonly reported prompts, each with a short approach and a link to the same prompt in the interview-questions hub.
OpenAI interviews sit between research and product. Public discussion points at coding, a practical design around model APIs, and judgment about safety, evaluation, and what you refuse to ship. Treat published policies as the values, not hallway folklore.
Candidates often describe a technical screen, a project deep dive, and conversations about collaboration between research and product.
OpenAI works in model research and developer platform. The drills use public themes from products such as ChatGPT and the API platform. The wording is a practice prompt. Your answer still has to be a story, a design, or a solution you can explain out loud.
Separate ‘the demo worked’ from ‘we know when it fails.’ Evaluation is the story they can check.
For a software engineer loop, start with the round that is shakiest. On behavioral and culture prompts, use a priority OpenAI states in public as a margin note: if the story does not need that idea, choose another story. The other forty OpenAI prompts are on the full interview questions page.
Not affiliated with OpenAI. OpenAI did not write these prompts and did not review this page.
10 commonly reported behavioral questions for OpenAI.
Not affiliated with OpenAI.
Behavioral
Commonly reported
How to approach. Open with the situation in one breath, then stay on your actions. At OpenAI, name the tradeoff and tie the result to a priority OpenAI states in public.
Behavioral
Commonly reported
How to approach. Keep the story under two minutes. End with what changed for the user of a product like the API platform, not with a moral.
Behavioral
Commonly reported
How to approach. Use a real miss if you have one. OpenAI interviews reward the repair and the specific check you added afterward.
Behavioral
Commonly reported
How to approach. Say who disagreed with you and what you did with their objection. Do not flatten the story into “we aligned.”
Behavioral
Commonly reported
How to approach. Put a number in the result — latency, revenue, tickets, or time — and admit what the number does not prove.
Behavioral
Commonly reported
How to approach. If you influenced without authority, name the ask, the resistance, and the artifact you left behind.
Behavioral
Commonly reported
How to approach. State the assumption you tested before you acted. That is the part an OpenAI interviewer can follow.
Behavioral
Commonly reported
How to approach. Credit the teammate whose work you improved, then describe the standard you held and how you showed it.
Behavioral
Commonly reported
How to approach. Start from the user of ChatGPT, then the constraint, then your call. Skip the company history.
Behavioral
Commonly reported
How to approach. Practice the “no” out loud. Include the shortcut you refused and the slower path you chose instead.
Stay on behavioral if stories are the gap. Switch to coding if the screen is soon and your narration is rusty. System design is the round to practice stopping: one API, one bottleneck, one thing you will not build. Role is where you show judgment for the job. Culture is where a priority OpenAI states in public has to cost something in the story, or it sounds memorized.
Separate ‘the demo worked’ from ‘we know when it fails.’ Evaluation is the story they can check. When ten prompts are not enough, the OpenAI interview questions page has the other forty, and the question generator can switch you to another company without an account.
Choose a round — behavioral, coding, system design, role, or culture — and read the ten commonly reported OpenAI prompts. Each one has a short approach and a link to that prompt on the OpenAI interview questions page. Shuffle if you are remembering the order instead of the question. Copy if you want the list in a notes doc. No account is required.
Separate ‘the demo worked’ from ‘we know when it fails.’ Evaluation is the story they can check. Public accounts of the loop usually look like this: Candidates often describe a technical screen, a project deep dive, and conversations about collaboration between research and product.
These are commonly reported practice prompts for OpenAI, built from public interview themes in model research and developer platform. Use them to rehearse a story, a design, or a solution you can defend. A specific interview on a specific day can ask a neighbor of the prompt.
Luna is not affiliated with OpenAI. OpenAI did not write these prompts and did not review this page. The generator is a free practice tool.
The full OpenAI set, all fifty prompts, is on the OpenAI interview questions page.