Confluent Software Engineer interview experience

In total, the process felt compact—short calls with engineers—and I remember enjoying the back-and-forth because the interviewers were warm and the conversations felt easy to follow.

In the first technical screen, I got a LeetCode-style medium algorithm question in one of the calls, and in another interview attempt the question level landed on the easier side. Then I had another coding round where the difficulty could jump—one experience had a hard problem, while another had an algorithm follow-up plus system design later in the sequence. Even when the problems felt non-trivial, the