Flexport·Software Engineer

Flexport Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Apr 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My onsite was long enough and varied enough that I could really tell what the company was optimizing for, and that ended up being the problem for me.

I had a phone interview, then a sequence of onsite rounds where the coding questions felt easy to medium and the design discussion was more about application design rather than anything large-scale. One thing that stuck out was how repetitive the questioning felt—there was an onsite round that effectively reused the same two questions from the earlier phone screen.

As the interviews continued, I started noticing how the manager and engineers framed their work. The conversations about scale and distributed systems didn’t match what I was hoping to get involved in, including a suggestion that

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