Confluent·Software Engineer

Confluent Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Aug 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a recruiting-led process that kept expanding until it finally changed the role entirely.

The recruiter contacted me about a consulting engineer position and set expectations for three interview rounds. After I cleared those, I was told I needed an additional round, and after passing that one, I was asked to do yet another.

By the time I reached the last interviewer, the goalposts still weren’t stable. After completing the final round, the recruiter came back and told me they were looking for an architect role instead of consulting engineer. What stayed with me was how much time and effort I had already invested by then—hours set aside for interviews and preparation—only to have

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