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A Brand-New Rectangle Coding Question and a Grid System Design

OpenAISoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

I just finished my OpenAI interview and wanted to share today's experience. Unfortunately, the coding round gave me a brand new question I had never seen before. The topic was Rectangle. Roughly, you maintain a 2D board, and requirements get added step by step: add rectangle remove rectangle undo after that there were follow-ups like removeAt / batch remove The whole thing was multipart, adding o…

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