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      OpenAI

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      4.1

      72% would recommend to a friend

      (100 total reviews)

      Sam Altman

      70% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

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      4.5

      Compensation and benefits

      4.1

      Career opportunities

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Senior management

      3.2

      Work/Life balance

      OpenAI has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 100 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The OpenAI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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      100 reviews
      5.0
      Jun 5, 2026

      OAI researcher

      Research engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      high talent density, good research culture, good TC. compute generally isn't an issue. people are very serious and in it to win it. sama is very competent

      Cons

      has become googleified as time goes on, more top-down. employees are also somewhat entitled/spoiled when dealing with leadership (some may not see this as a downside though)

      1.0
      May 27, 2026

      Horrible

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      good pay and benefits, some smart people

      Cons

      The leadership is extremely reactive. Instead of having a plan and sticking to it, they change the course where the competition blows. It's basically like they dont trust their own plan and trust competition instead. No culture, it's just a rat race. Work life balance as you should expect in a cult like environment is non existent. You are indefinitely on call to fix the issues other internal teams break. hire the brightest to baby sit AI and do support work.

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