Flexport·Software Engineer

Flexport Software Engineer interview experience

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I applied for both SDE2 and senior roles, but I ended up going through an interview loop for the SDE2 track.

The process began with a video call with the hiring manager where behavioral questions took the lead. The hiring manager was late by about five minutes, apologized, and then moved into a structured set of behavior prompts.

After that, I got an algorithm question about calculating cargo rates. It had multiple moving parts—fixed rates and tiered rates—and I realized fairly late that I needed to lean on object-oriented design to abstract the different pricing rules cleanly. The system design round then shifted into designing something like OpenTable, including a database schema,

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