Pony.Ai·Software Engineer

Pony.Ai Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Mar 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The interview was scheduled for an hour, but the interviewer joined about ten minutes late and then immediately threw a problem at me without offering advice or guidance.

They stayed fairly monotone the whole time, and their tone made it feel like asking questions would be viewed negatively.

We never really got to a comfortable rhythm where I could clarify my approach; instead, it felt like I was expected to just know what to do. I remember finishing thinking the company was still figuring out how to run the process, because the interaction didn’t feel designed to help the candidate succeed.

I didn’t receive an offer. Even though there was a coding problem to solve, the bigger issue was how the interviewer’s communication style shut down questions, and that

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