Confluent·Software Engineer

Confluent Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

SpainPosted Sep 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After hearing from recruiting, I moved through a fairly standard sequence: a recruiter screen, then technical conversations that blended coding with bigger-picture topics like system design.

The coding parts were generally reasonable—often framed around implementing working code and discussing the choices I was making as I went. I also had a system design component where the interviewer wanted concrete reasoning rather than only high-level concepts, and that shift in style changed how the round felt.

In one system-design discussion, I started by clarifying assumptions and laying out a backend architecture for a high-traffic service. I then got pushed to compute specific numbers—expected users, request volumes, storage, and network traffic—until the interviewer seemed satisfied

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