Confluent Software Engineer interview experience

That was one of the longest scheduling gaps I’ve experienced, and it was also one of the only times I had to sign an NDA for the interview process.

When I finally got into the technical round, the task was about implementing data access within a rolling time window. The problem itself felt unclear at the beginning, and I struggled to get the context I needed because the interviewer seemed disinterested when I tried to ask follow-up questions to clarify what they wanted. I wrote a working first pass within the first half of the interview, then spent the remainder refactoring for