Ty Geri, a product manager who joined OpenAI in 2025, advised job seekers that enthusiasm is key, saying the lab hires people who are "really passionate" and want to be part of the mission. His advice applies to any role, including engineer, researcher, product manager, and data scientist. Geri also recommended using the company's products and bringing them into daily life and workflows, noting that some products will be "a little rough today" but OpenAI seeks people willing to "push on the frontiers." He said the messiness of experimentation is core to OpenAI's culture, which expects "a lot of building in public," and staffers want to see what you're building and try it themselves. Geri described a fallacy of work—"You sit in a dark room, you come out three years later, and you're like: 'Voila, magic'"—as something that does not fly at OpenAI. He acknowledged the approach "definitely stresses me out" but called it "part of the fun." Among employees, there is a willingness to try new things, and if a product is "not quite it yet," others will try again. Geri said this culture of experimentation and "big swings" differentiates OpenAI from his prior job at Google, where "larger companies in the space can sometimes be a little bit slower."