I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Flexport in Dec 2022
Interview
It was very long and drawn out. There was also lots of redundancy. I had to do a total of 3 coding interviews plus a behavioral and project deep dive. I wish I would have gotten cut earlier on so I could spend less of my time during the holidays interviewing. I spent a total of 6 hours on interviews that definitely could have been 3 or 4 (code, behavior, project). But they pay more than my current role so I guess it’s their loss too.
I don’t think the SE II’s weren’t the best choice for the coding interviews especially since it was for their same position and I found a lot of variance in “quality”. I found the Senior engineers were more helpful. I was told by one of my interviewers that a lot of people get tripped up by solving smaller problems and go for a built out solution.
Tl;Dr don’t apply if you aren’t good at coding interviews
A recruiter sent me an invitation, then schedule a phone interview via coderpad. It took about 1 hour to finish the coding phone interview. Finally got rejected three weeks later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Part 1
You need to model orders and voyages, where each order has an origin, destination, dropoff date, and target delivery date, and each voyage has an origin, destination, departure date, and arrival date. The method book_order should assign an order to the earliest voyage by departure date that meets the time and port constraints.
Part 2
On top of Part 1, each voyage now has a capacity limiting how many orders it can carry. You must extend the model so that book_order only assigns an order to voyages that both satisfy the time constraints and still have remaining capacity.
Part 3
Because capacity is often exhausted, you are allowed to have an overload percentage for each voyage. Update book_order function to allow it booking the overloaded capacity if there are no available normal capacity from all voyages.
Recruiter reached out to set up an interview and canceled it less than 24 hours later with a boilerplate response from a no reply email. Very unprofessional and telling for how they treat people!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
No questions were asked beyond phone screen availability
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Flexport in Feb 2023
Interview
Normal question, the interviewer was bored beforehand and for the entire hour it was basically like talking to a piece of russian wall. Extremely rude and hard to listen to. Waste of time for both.
