Sriram Krishnan Praises Personalized Demo For OpenAI Job Interviews

In a series of posts on X, Gabriel said one of his earlier career-advice posts drew 14,000 bookmarks, but "zero" of the hundreds of applicants to his company used the personalized-demo approach he had been recommending. He followed that with a broader claim from his own interviewing experience, writing that after interviewing 50-plus people, it was rare for candidates to describe their work in concrete, high-precision terms. The immediate spark is the gap Gabriel described between strong engagement and apparent follow-through.