Pony.Ai Software Engineer interview experience

The hardest part was just communicating; my interview was in English, but the interviewer’s English felt quite limited, and I kept struggling to make myself clear. I remember thinking that I should have just switched to Chinese from the beginning, or at least asked for things to be said much more slowly.

The technical discussion drifted into something I knew well, like adjacency list and using it for graph topological sort, but it didn’t land. I brought up adjacency lists repeatedly while explaining my approach, and the interviewer didn’t seem familiar with the concept, so even when I tried