Flexport·Software Engineer

Flexport Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into my interview and got only two questions, but both of them were tough in a specific way: I discovered that the provided example answers were wrong.

For the first question, I proposed both a greedy and a dynamic programming approach, and after running through an example I realized something didn’t add up with the expected answer. I also pointed out that the greedy method wasn’t suitable once the constraints became clear.

The second question had the same problem with the example being incorrect. I ended up manually building a tree line by line just to test what was happening, and after building a few nodes—around three—I ran out of time and couldn’t complete the rest of the work.

The result came quickly: I received a rejection about half

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