前 OpenAI 工程师 Calvin French-Owen 在其博客中分享了他在 OpenAI 工作的经历，揭示了这家公司独特的内部通信方式。他提到，OpenAI 内部几乎所有沟通都通过 Slack 进行，电子邮件的使用频率极低，他在 OpenAI 的一年工作期间仅收到约 10 封邮件。French-Owen 认为，这种方式虽然可能分散注意力，但在员工精心管理频道和通知的情况下，是可行的。此外，文章还提到了 OpenAI 与 Meta 之间的联系，以及 Meta 试图通过高薪从 OpenAI 挖人的情况。

🗣️ 内部沟通主要依赖 Slack: 前 OpenAI 工程师表示，OpenAI 内部所有沟通都通过 Slack 进行，而非电子邮件。他个人在 OpenAI 的一年工作期间仅收到约 10 封邮件。

🤔 Slack 的优缺点: French-Owen 认为，使用 Slack 可能会分散注意力，但如果员工能够有效管理他们的频道和通知，这种方式是可行的。

🤝 OpenAI 与 Meta 的人才流动: 文章提到，OpenAI 在工程人员方面与 Meta 有着密切的联系。Meta 正在通过提供高薪来吸引 OpenAI 的员工。

Calvin French-Owen worked at OpenAI from May 2024 to June 2025.He said OpenAI relies on Slack, and not email, as its main channel of communication among staff."There is no email. I maybe received ~10 emails in my entire time there," he wrote in a blog post.

Calvin French-Owen worked at OpenAI for about a year, but says he only received about 10 emails during his time at the ChatGPT maker.

French-Owen joined OpenAI in May 2024 and left in June, per his LinkedIn. The MIT graduate wrote about his experience working at OpenAI in a blog post published on Tuesday.

"I wanted to share my reflections because there's a lot of smoke and noise around what OpenAI is doing, but not a lot of first-hand accounts of what the culture of working there actually feels like," he wrote.

French-Owen said in his post that OpenAI didn't rely on email as its main channel of communication between staff.

"An unusual part of OpenAI is that everything, and I mean everything, runs on Slack," French-Owen wrote, referencing the workplace messaging program owned by Salesforce.

"There is no email. I maybe received ~10 emails in my entire time there," he continued.

French-Owen said using Slack over email can be "incredibly distracting," but added that OpenAI's practice is "pretty workable" if people curate their channels and notifications.

OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, is known for being exacting about emails and messages.

In September 2023, New York Magazine's Elizabeth Weil published a profile about Altman. Weil said Altman would track how quickly founders replied to his emails and texts when he was the president of Y Combinator.

In his blog post, French-Owen said he noticed a "very significant Meta → OpenAI pipeline" in terms of engineering staff.

"In many ways, OpenAI resembles early Meta: a blockbuster consumer app, nascent infra, and a desire to move really quickly," he wrote.

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's cofounder and CEO, has been offering huge pay packages to poach OpenAI's employees. Meta's new superintelligence team includes researchers from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

Altman said in a podcast interview that aired last month that Meta's $100 million signing bonuses were "crazy."

French-Owen and OpenAI did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.