RejectedOnsite

Phone, Virtual Onsite, and a Silent Extra Round

OpenAISoftware Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2026

Sharing my recent interview experience, hopefully it helps folks interviewing later avoid the same landmine. Phone Screen: Coding: Design a social media feed, Part 1 and Part 2. I didn't fully finish it, but I talked through my remaining approach. System Design: Sora. The interviewer pressed on some details, including why I chose AWS SQS and how to handle various failure cases. Virtual Onsite: BQ…

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