Confluent·Software Engineer

Confluent Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Oct 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter touchpoint, I ended up with a fairly short set of rounds that felt like they were testing execution more than collaboration.

I first did a coding round with a few questions, then moved into a separate interview where I was handed another coding task to implement. The whole thing felt straightforward on paper, but the dynamic in the technical discussions was uncomfortable.

Across the technical sessions, I kept running into interruptions that broke my flow. Sometimes the interviewer would cut in constantly with questions that weren’t really connected to the part I was working on, and other times the tone felt dismissive—like the preferred approach was to just write code without much back-and-forth. In the

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