An OpenAI engineer, Jerene Yang, described her hiring experience as exceptionally fast, moving from initial recruiter contact to a signed job offer in just one week. Yang, a team lead for synthetic data generation, detailed the process on a podcast, noting it was efficient and direct. Her interviews, including a technical deep dive, occurred over a single day, with an offer extended the next day and accepted shortly after. She joined OpenAI in October 2024 after previously working at Google.