Flexport·Software Engineer

Flexport Software Engineer interview experience

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process included a system design interview that didn’t feel like the usual playbook.

Instead of a generic production system, I was asked to design a flight reservation system, which forced me to think through constraints that were more domain-specific than I expected. The rest of the questions were more standard compared to that design prompt.

Because that flight-reservation system design stood out, the whole interview felt shaped around whether I could translate requirements into a clean model and flow. I kept the structure simple, but I did have to be careful about the details I discussed.

I came away with the feeling that the company was testing my ability to operate

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