I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Pony.ai (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2018
Interview
The interview is on phone and shared screen. They asked something about your experience and told you what kind of employee they need. Then comes the code problem. When I finished, they asked some follow-up questions and I need to change my code to fit the new problem.
Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Pony.ai
Standard phone interview/screening; hour-long technical interview with Leetcode-style question, followed by a 4-hour long onsite with behavior/cultural fit and a systems architecture question. They were very interested in knowing how you would think about designing a system from the ground up and how you would solve problems
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Suppose you have a series of readings that represents values for speed. Return the length of the longest continuous interval where the difference between the largest and smallest value does not exceed a certain value.
normal technical interview with 4 round on-site. the coding question is hard or medium, and there is also system design questions. after the interview, it is ghosted for 2 weeks
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
some hard dp questions and image processing system design
first we have a phone interview about coding problem, and then need to join 4 rounds onsite virtual interview about coding and system design questions, from medium to hard difficulty.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Pony.ai with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 20% positive. To compare, the company-average is 27.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 25 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Pony.ai overall takes an average of 13 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Pony.ai as a Software Engineer according to 25 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 44%
Presentation: 19%
One on one interview: 15%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Group panel interview: 4%
Other: 4%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 4%
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