OpenAI reviews

4.1

74% would recommend to a friend

(100 total reviews)

Sam Altman

72% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

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
1.0
May 27, 2026

Horrible

Recommend
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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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