Confluent Software Engineer interview experience

In a virtual campus-style setup, I was asked to work on an undirected graph problem—specifically like a tree—and come up with an approach using a multi-source BFS idea. I had a set chunk of time just to understand and plan, then once I explained my approach I moved into coding in a provided editor.

Even though the problem felt approachable, I ended up running into logic mistakes in my implementation when I tested it against the given test cases. The format was straightforward and hands-on, which I actually liked, but it also meant the gap between reasoning and correct code was