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User-5d13yAug 1, 2026

Got rejected after the OpenAI loop, Sora system design was rough

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User-n8vpgAug 1, 2026

sorry man, at least you've got a solid writeup out of it for next time

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User-s8r2sAug 1, 2026

how was the cross function round actually structured? never heard of openai doing that before

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vikramreddyAug 1, 2026

yeah it was pretty new to me too, felt like behavioral but the interviewer kept steering toward how i'd explain technical tradeoffs to a non technical partner

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User-kz9iwAug 1, 2026

i had something similar for the non engineer round, mine was a researcher not a pm though

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user-k15d ago

Probably need to focus on checkpointing while executing GPU workload?

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priyashah91Aug 1, 2026

the sora round wrecked me too ngl, kept getting pushed on worker failure stuff and i felt like i was rambling by the end

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User-1rrq2Aug 1, 2026

same, i think i undersold the checkpointing part and just kinda hand waved the retry logic

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rohan.verma95Aug 1, 2026

how bad was gpu credits compared to what you expected going in

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User-zixl2Aug 1, 2026

curious how deep they went on the idempotency stuff for payment system, did they want actual schema level detail

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