Confluent·Frontend Engineer

Confluent Frontend Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted Sep 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a coding phone interview that felt genuinely pleasant.

The interviewer gave me a challenging question but still had a real back-and-forth with me about the solution, how I implemented it, the tradeoffs, and even asked and answered questions about the company. I felt like I was being judged on my reasoning more than just getting to a single “right” answer.

The next step was where things soured. On the system design interview, I was asked to design the backend for a popular app at very large scale. I began by clarifying assumptions and laying out a high-level architecture, including my thinking on write/read optimizations and how storage and

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