Confluent Software Engineer interview experience

I ended up spending more than five hours in total, and it included a technical walkthrough challenge plus a separate coding challenge. The process itself involved a lot of different recruiters coordinating things, and there was even back-and-forth internally about the pay range, which made the whole timeline feel messy.

On top of that, the way interviews felt day-of didn’t always match the idea of a two-way evaluation. Several interviewers seemed like they had already decided how they were going to view my candidacy before I even spoke much. The technical conversations still happened, but