Pony.Ai Software Engineer interview experience

It felt like they were checking both whether I could solve the problem and how I reasoned step by step. A few days later, I went into a longer onsite session that ran about four hours, focused heavily on fitting in and also digging into technical thinking.

During that onsite, there was a behavioral/cultural fit component alongside a systems architecture question. What stood out was how interested they were in how I’d design something from the ground up—how I’d break down requirements, choose an approach, and work through tradeoffs while solving the problem. Overall the difficulty felt