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User-7m1eyJun 1, 2026

OpenAI phone screen - failed, pretty sure it wasn't the coding

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lisayang_techJun 1, 2026

the run test case vs run main thing destroyed 10 minutes of my phone screen too. should be in every prep guide at this point

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keithtan_sweJun 2, 2026

openai rejections with no feedback are frustrating. you literally cannot improve on what you don't know

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User-4xxnuJun 2, 2026

they sometimes reject people who technically did fine but didn't clear a behavioral threshold. hard to know from outside

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brendanwu99Jun 1, 2026

if you described the Sora problem as a job scheduler that's correct. some people go deep on video details which wastes time

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matthewchen_devJun 2, 2026

yeah i explicitly said not to get distracted by video generation specifics early on. maybe it was something else

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