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Fora Travel is a modern travel agency platform that empowers individuals to become travel advisors by providing booking tools, training, and commission-earning opportunities. It combines technology with a network of advisors to help clients plan and book trips.

3 interview notes · updated Jul 2026

Fora Travel·Software Engineer·Onsite - System Design / Architecture

Jul 2026
System design round at Fora Travel for a software engineering role. The question was a full-scale emergency notification platform design, which is one of those problems that looks manageable until you start pulling on the threads.
  • Design a disaster and emergency notification system for a large organization (city government, university, or company) that delivers urgent alerts across multiple channels like SMS, push, email, voice, and web banners, with targeting by geography, group, subscription, or incident type.

“This one sprawled fast.”

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Fora Travel·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jul 2026
Interviewed for a software engineering role at Fora Travel and got a two-part algorithms question centered on merging sorted arrays. Pretty classic stuff but the K-array generalization is where things get interesting and where I probably could've done better.
  • Given two sorted arrays in nondecreasing order, implement a function that merges them into a single sorted array while preserving duplicates. The function should not mutate the inputs.
  • Generalize your merge solution to handle K sorted arrays instead of two, returning one combined sorted array. Discuss the time and space complexity of your approach.

“Went with the classic two-pointer approach, which felt right.”

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Fora Travel·Software Engineer·Onsite - System Design / Architecture

May 2026
System design round at Fora Travel for a software engineering role, focused entirely on building out the backend for a travel advisory product with three distinct UI pages. Pretty domain-specific but the core concepts are standard enough if you've done API design before.
  • Given mockups for a travel catalog page, a product detail page, and an inquiry/booking-request page, design the data model and APIs needed to support all three. Cover entities, relationships, read and write APIs, validation, pagination, filtering, and how the backend enables efficient page rendering.

“This is a lot to cover in one question and I think I underestimated how much they wanted on the data modeling side before jumping to APIs.”

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