Flexport·Software Engineer

Flexport Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

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Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview had several rounds: a new coding problem, an “Open Table”-style design question, a behavioral round, a project deep dive, and then a flight reservation design question.

I went in feeling like I’d prepared, but the technical conversations didn’t feel as smooth as I expected.

In the Open Table design round, the interviewer had over ten years of engineering experience and had recently moved into management, and they seemed distracted. When I asked clarifying questions, I had to repeat myself multiple times because they weren’t responding directly to what I was trying to confirm. I was asked to write a database schema, an SQL query, and some API pseudocode, but when I suggested stepping back to discuss design concerns like race conditions, the interviewer shut

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