User-rwqd9Jul 23, 2026

OpenAI - Am I the only one doing c++ on interviews?

Hack2hire Community · 2026-07-23T04:22:30.599Z

I'm currently awaiting the final interview rounds (so already did 2 screens, and the hiring manager). The recruiter when we first talked told me that I should do c++ interviews if I can (and I definitely can). But everything online that I saw was in python. So wandering if any of you had experiences doing interviews in c++ and whether they calibrate the questions for a slower language to type. In my screen I had CI/CD for system architecture and a serializable KV store for the coding + a follow...

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User-53m8qJul 24, 2026

I remember only the search infra team required C++ background.

User-bsf6aJul 23, 2026

that concurrency followup sounds brutal honestly

User-rh0i7Jul 23, 2026

honestly same struggle here tbh

User-rwqd9Jul 23, 2026

FWIW for anyone looking, they did provide a skeleton on class and function signatures, a main method and even the serialize / deserialize uint32_t to/from string :) so the focus was actually on coding the solution.