Technical Screen

Plant-Infection Coding Round Plus an In-Depth Management Interview

OpenAISoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

A friend referred me to a tech + management role that required both domain knowledge and management experience. It was a 60-minute coding round, and the question was the pretty common plant-infection problem. I wrote up three parts of it and ran out of time, and only touched on the fourth part without really finishing it. The interviewer was very quiet, almost no back-and-forth. One thing worth f…

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