Flexport Software Engineer interview experience

I ended up in an HR call, then moved into a set of algorithm interviews that ran as three rounds totaling about four hours, and then a separate system design segment that also stretched as three rounds for another four hours. Overall it felt like a marathon rather than a typical screen-to-offer flow.

I didn’t complete everything. I only finished two out of the three algorithm rounds, and even in the ones I tackled, I hit problems I couldn’t resolve well enough—some of them were on the more difficult side. I never made it through the entire sequence, so I didn’t pass.

What stuck with me was