Pony.Ai Software Engineer interview experience

The coding portion ranged from hard to medium, and there were also system design questions mixed in across the interviews. The overall difficulty felt difficult, and by the end I was left with the sense that I’d done a real technical test rather than something casual.

What surprised me most wasn’t the difficulty—it was the silence afterward. After my interviews wrapped, I was effectively ghosted for about two weeks. No clear timeline, no update, and eventually there was no offer. Looking back, the most frustrating part was how long it took to get any closure, even if the decision was