Technical Screen

Tricky IDE Quirks and a Surprise Chess Game System Design

OpenAIBackend Engineer · Technical Screen · Apr 2026

Let me start by saying you should try to avoid this interviewer if you can. He had a really heavy accent and I couldn't understand him at all, and when I asked questions partway through the interview, he just kept going silent. The question was the IP address problem. I got to the third part, the CIDR block part, but when I ran it the answer was wrong. After the interview ended I thought about it…

Shared by a candidate · reported Apr 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.