An OpenAI engineer outlines her one-week hiring sprint, from outreach on Monday to a signed offer on Friday

An OpenAI engineer explains how OpenAI hired her in a week.

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• An OpenAI engineer breaks down OpenAI's fast, "no-nonsense" hiring process.
• Jerene Yang said a recruiter reached out to her on a Monday. She signed the offer on Friday.
• The team lead for synthetic data generation at OpenAI said there is one skill candidates must master.

An engineer at OpenAI says the company's hiring process can move from first contact to a signed offer in a week.