Pony.Ai·Software Engineer

Pony.Ai Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Fremont, CAPosted Apr 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My phone screen started late—the interviewer joined about twenty minutes behind schedule—and then we moved into a quick discussion about my past work before jumping into coding.

I was asked to code quicksort, and then about a week later I got invited to a virtual onsite.

The onsite followed a pretty standard pattern with five interviews: four technical whiteboarding rounds and one HR conversation. The whole thing was very CS and coding heavy, with heavy emphasis on data structures and algorithms, and I could feel I wasn’t as ready as I needed to be. On top of that, the interviews had an edge that rubbed me the wrong way—some interviewers didn’t introduce themselves, walked in and immediately started firing questions, and became hostile or unhelpful when I asked

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