Pony.Ai·Software Engineer

Pony.Ai Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted May 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I walked into the process expecting technical depth, but what bothered me most was the attitude.

The interviewers felt quite junior, and they came across as entitled and rude. They asked LeetCode-style questions in a very direct, almost pick-up-and-go way, without reshaping the problem to the conversation.

I remember being especially surprised because I had solved their coding round in O(n log n) and then explained how it could be improved to O(n) by the end of the meeting. Despite that, I still got rejected, which felt like the most painful part—if I hadn’t solved the problem, I could have accepted the rejection more easily.

The overall experience was algorithm-heavy like most CS

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