Design Container Assignment with Incompatible Goods

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Design a shipment-planning service that assigns goods to ocean containers under weight, volume, and incompatibility constraints. Cover versioned plans, deterministic optimization, explainable infeasibility, asynchronous solving, approval races, stale-input protection, overrides, and auditability.

Design Container Assignment with Incompatible Goods

Company: Flexport

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: hard

Interview Round: Onsite

Overview: Design a shipment-planning service that assigns goods to ocean containers under weight, volume, and incompatibility constraints. Cover versioned plans, deterministic optimization, explainable infeasibility, asynchronous solving, approval races, stale-input protection, overrides, and auditability.

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Jun 28, 2026
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