Flexport·Software Engineer

Flexport Software Engineer interview experience

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Shanghai, ChinaCandidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process stretched across five rounds, and the structure stayed fairly consistent: coding, then more coding, then system design, followed by a deep dive, and finishing with the hiring manager.

The early coding rounds covered a mix of classic algorithm work—things like traversals and grid-style problems. One round included counting islands and simulating a flood that submerges islands not connected to the boundary, where I had to output the resulting map.

The system design part asked for a restaurant reservation system similar to Meituan, including how to design the APIs and the database tables. After that, the project deep dive was less about facts and more about story: I picked a past project, drew an architecture diagram on a HackerRank whiteboard, and walked through the

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