I interned at OpenAI in San Francisco. Here's how landed it, what it was like, and what I thought of Sam Altman.

Mostafa was accepted to a three-month internship with OpenAI. Courtesy of Hamza Mostafa While studying in Canada, Hamza Mostafa made it his mission to reach San Francisco to work in tech. He went on to land an OpenAI internship in San Francisco. Mostafa said that while Canada is cheaper, there are more opportunities in San Francisco. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Hamza Mostafa, 21, who lives in San Francisco. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Growing up, I wanted to work in the medical field like most of my family did. But after taking a computer science class in high school, my ambitions changed. While I studied software engineering at university in Canada, I made it my mission to get to San Francisco , where everyone in the field dreams of landing a job.