August 2026
The OpenAI India Test
Sixteen questions. Not one asks for a resume.
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Every question is a cage.
This was not a job form. It was a sixteen part test of creative judgement. A portfolio tells you what someone made. This form tells you what they will make when the brief is bad, the deadline is tomorrow, the obvious words are banned, and they still have to produce something worth noticing.
A portfolio tells you what someone made. This form tells you what they make under constraint. Every question is a cage, and the cage is the point.
Part one — can you make things (Q1–Q6)
“Tell us about one piece of work you are genuinely proud of. Share a link. What exactly was yours, and what is the one decision you are proudest of?”
What it measuresOwnership. Not can you point at good work, but can you isolate your specific contribution and the single decision behind it. Vague "we" answers fail here.
“Now show us something you made that bombed. What did you learn? What would you change if you made it today?”
What it measuresWhether you can look at failure without flinching or spinning. The tell is whether the "learning" is real or a disguised brag.
“What did your last team always come to you for? What would they absolutely never come to you for?”
What it measuresHonest self knowledge. The first half is easy ego. The second half forces you to name a real edge you do not have, out loud, without humblebragging. Most people cannot.
“What is one thing on the internet recently that made you jealous you did not make it?”
What it measuresYour taste, and your reference set. What you envy reveals the ceiling you are aiming at better than anything you claim to admire.
“What is something you have gone down a completely unnecessary rabbit hole learning?”
What it measuresGenuine curiosity versus performed curiosity. "Unnecessary" is the key word. They want obsession with no payoff, because that is what real interest looks like.
“Tell us about one piece of feedback you ignored. Were you right?”
What it measuresConviction and calibration. Can you hold a line against feedback, and can you be honest about when holding it was a mistake.
Part two — can you make this thing (Q7–Q12)
“Share a link to the most interesting conversation you have had with ChatGPT.”
What it measuresWhether you actually use the product, and how. The conversation you pick is a portfolio of how your mind works with the tool.
“Make one deeply boring thing famous by tomorrow. What is it, and what is the first post?”
What it measuresThe core creative skill for this job. Can you find the angle in something with no obvious angle, and can you start, not just strategize.
“Explain ChatGPT to your mother, your ex, and a 14 year old. One sentence each.”
What it measuresAudience range. Three registers, three relationships, three levels of context. It is a compression test wearing a joke.
“Make someone want to try ChatGPT without using these words: AI, future, smarter, revolution, unlock, possibilities.”
What it measuresWhether you can sell without the crutch words. Banning the obvious vocabulary is how they find out if you have real vocabulary underneath.
“A creator comments: "This sounds like ChatGPT wrote it." Reply from the brand account. Twelve words maximum.”
What it measuresGrace under hostility, in the brand's voice, under a hard cap. The twelve word limit is the real test. No room to hide behind length.
“Pick one Indian creator to run ChatGPT India for a day. What do they post first?”
What it measuresCultural fluency and casting instinct. Do you know the room, and can you match a voice to the brand without breaking either.
Part three — do you have a point of view (Q13–Q16)
“What do you currently do, or what did you do most recently?”
What it measuresThe one straight question. Placed late on purpose, after they already know how you think. Context, not credential.
“Turn your latest rabbit hole into a five slide Instagram carousel. Only give us the slide headlines.”
What it measuresStructure and restraint. Headlines only means you cannot lean on visuals or body copy. Can you carry a narrative on five lines.
“Which is the bigger win: one million views or 100 people copying the behaviour? You only get one sentence to defend your answer.”
What it measuresWhether you understand reach versus influence, and whether you have a spine. No right answer. Only whether you can defend a real view without hedging.
“Anything else we should know before speaking?”
What it measuresWhat you choose to do with an open door. The answer, or the choice to leave it blank, is itself the signal.
The three hardest.
Three questions carry the piece, and they are the ones the original post quoted.
“Anyone can answer what their team relied on them for. The second half, what they would never come to you for, is a landmine. Say nothing and you look self unaware. Brag in reverse and you look worse. The only passing answer is a true weakness stated plainly. It is measuring whether you can be honest when honesty costs you something.”
— Q3 · the honesty trap
“A hostile comment, a brand account, and a hard cap. Too long and you sound defensive. Too clever and you sound smug. The constraint is the whole test: it strips away everywhere a weaker writer hides and leaves only judgement. Can you be warm, sharp, and done in one breath.”
— Q11 · the twelve word cage
“One million views or a hundred people copying the behaviour. There is no correct answer and they know it. What they are watching is whether you can pick a side and defend it in a single sentence without softening it into "it depends." A point of view, held.”
— Q15 · the spine test
A portfolio shows you the work. A good question shows you the person.