RejectedTechnical Screen

Delayed Feedback in a Binary Search Problem

OpenAISoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

This was my OpenAI rejection experience. Both the coding and system design questions may have been new, because I had never seen either one before. The coding problem had two parts, and both seemed related to binary search. In the first part, I had to implement binary search to guess a secret number. There was a function that reported whether my guess was too low or too high, but its response was…

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