Confluent·Software Engineer

Confluent Software Engineer interview experience

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Palo Alto, CAPosted Oct 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process felt unusually professional and tightly organized from start to finish.

After a recruiter conversation, I went through a set of technical phone interviews with engineers. Then I moved into a virtual onsite that focused heavily on real problem-solving rather than just theory.

During the onsite portion, I was given customer-scenario style questions in a Zoom session, followed by live debugging of Kafka-based problems. After that, I worked through Java code debugging and triaging questions, and the last part of the loop was a manager-style round.

The whole thing had a clear structure—recruiter call, multiple technical screens, then a longer Zoom-based onsite with

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