Flexport Software Engineer interview experience

The interview started with the interviewer asking me to write a method to check whether a player was eligible to purchase cards using points, and then another method to actually complete the purchase. After I implemented those, the interviewer asked me to add extra tracking for more player information and to create a Player object at the end—though time was tight.

What caught me off guard was how much the later feature addition disrupted my flow. Adding a new piece following best practices, like creating a new file for the new object, was the last thing I could think of during the session. I