Confluent·Software Engineer

Confluent Software Engineer interview experience

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I went through a longer, more interview-heavy loop that really leaned into both coding and system-design style thinking, with a lot of behavioral discussion woven throughout.

I had five rounds total, each with two interviewers, and I ended up taking two days off specifically for the interview schedule.

My coding rounds included validating a Sudoku setup and then solving a Sudoku puzzle after validation. Another round asked me to build something like a shortened URL service (TinyURL), where the discussion also touched on how I’d think about the database schema and API interactions. In the behavioral segments, the interviewers seemed to want more context for my decisions rather than deep technical digressions, and I felt myself getting interrupted during one

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