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OpenAI applicant struggles with browser bot coding challenge

A user applying for a Design Engineer role at OpenAI was given a take-home assignment to build a self-driving browser bot capable of completing complex tasks like booking restaurant reservations. The user expressed frustration that the evaluation criteria focused solely on the bot's functionality and robustness, disregarding design aspects. They questioned the feasibility of the task given the limitations of existing commercial tools and sought advice on using existing frameworks and AI assistants for the project. AI

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  1. r/OpenAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/pavlito88 ·

    Applied for a Design Engineer job. The take-home is to build a self-driving browser bot. They told me design counts for zero points.

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm a designer who codes some frontend. That's the whole reason I went for this role. Then they hand me this: build an agent where you type &quot;book a table for 2 at 7pm at Nobu SF&quot; in plain English and it drives a real browser to actually…