Confluent·Software Engineer

Confluent Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop felt uneven and emotionally taxing.

I had multiple rounds with system design conversations that were supposed to flow, but the tone was inconsistent: one round felt genuinely engaged and collaborative around API design, while another system design session felt less serious and started to drift as we moved from discussion into more pointed corrections.

During the later system design part, tinyURL came up as context and I didn’t see early issues, but halfway through the interviewer started steering my focus and the conversation became less interactive than it should’ve been. I also got pulled into concurrency and database schema

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