Company-aware practice
Start company interviewQuestions will use Behavioral and Technical Phone Screen signals from Confluent.
Difficulty
3.8/5 — Hard
Timeline
3 to 6 weeks
Formats
Recruiter Screen
Initial conversation to discuss background, interest in Confluent, and high-level role expectations.
Technical Phone Screen
A technical deep dive with a peer or hiring manager, often involving coding or architecture discussion.
Deepen your knowledge of Apache Kafka and the Confluent ecosystem.
Focus on distributed systems theory.
Be prepared to talk about your contributions to open-source projects if applicable.
Research Confluent's core values and culture.
On-Site / Final Round
A series of interviews covering technical skills, system design, and behavioral/culture-fit assessments.
Focus on empathy, communication, and the final resolution.
Design a system to handle high-throughput data ingestion.
PracticeConsider scalability, fault tolerance, and data consistency.