I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Confluent (Palo Alto, CA) in Nov 2018
Interview
During my recent job search Confluent was by far the most challenging and most thorough process. It consisted of a phone screen with the recruiter (who is a Confluent FTE, not a contractor), the hiring manager, 4 technical interviews with senior engineers, a discussion with VP of Engineering, and a final conversation with the hiring manager.
I felt I was treated very fairly and given an adequate chance to demonstrate my skills and knowledge.
Having been in the industry for several years, I found the coding exercises somewhat contrived and difficult. I struggled with them, but managed to get through them all.
I should add this interview process was done 100% over the phone (Zoom).
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Two of the technical interviews were system design and architecture questions. It is meant to test your knowledge of distributed systems, databases, replication, caching, etc.
The other two technical interviews were algorithms coding problems. Make sure you are current on threading/concurrency, data structures (trees especially), and other algorithmic types of problems. Other reviews here on Glassdoor have more information, and it was fairly accurate.
I went through a SWE interview process. It was a positive experience. The problems were of medium difficulty, with some harder follow ups. I had two technical interviews and a manager round. Ultimately, I did not receive an offer, but I would reapply.
I went through three technical rounds. The interviews were interesting, but after that, they didn't respond. They didn't provide the results of the process which was not professional on their part.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Implement a LRU Cache
2. Find if a sudoku is valid and also find the correct solution for it.
I applied online. I interviewed at Confluent (Toronto, ON)
Interview
I interviewed for an entry level frontend engineer position. There were 4 rounds - a qualifying hackerrank, followed by 2 technical interviews, and then a final round with the hiring manager.
The process moves quickly, which was really refreshing (many large companies take weeks or months to invite you to an interview). In my experience, recruiting was very responsive, and they let me know ahead of time what general topics to expect for each interview, so there were no big surprises.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I can't give details, but you should know the fundamentals of javascript
