OpenAI's October Interview Questions Were Mostly Ordinary Coding, Not AI

A tracker of reported interview questions found that only 5 of OpenAI's 40 October questions concerned AI, with the rest centered on coding and classic system design such as chess validation, payment systems and poker hands. Across all dates the company's share of AI-related questions stands at about 19 percent, so October was not an outlier. OpenAI had more reported questions than any other AI company in the tracker, and most of its questions appear at no other company in the dataset. Anthropic's October set leaned somewhat more toward AI, with 3 of its 12 questions on the subject, all design-related. The authors note that a single month is a small sample and that quiet months may simply reflect a lack of write-ups.