Confluent·Software Engineer

Confluent Software Engineer interview experience

Medium

Positive

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first thing that stood out to me was how varied the technical rounds were.

I had two coding questions where one was fairly straightforward and I could lean on depth-first search, and the second asked me to retrieve the last N lines from a file with easy follow-ups along the way. The system design round came right after that, and it felt like a separate lane entirely.

In system design, I was pulled into TinyURL and also a feeds-focused service. The feeds part especially pushed me to go beyond vague ideas and talk through what the API would look like, including how clients would interact with it. It wasn’t just about naming components—it was about being ready to

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