Interview Experience Analysis for Confluent

My friend referred me at confluent and got a callback from the recruiter within 2 hours of being referred. The interview was scheduled after 3 days and it has 3 technical round + 1 Engineering value round. 3 techincal rounds are scheduled before hand and based on the experience, engineering value r...

Sharing my experience going through Confluent’s interview loop for an SDE role. The rounds were a good mix of algorithmic depth, API-level design, and real-world engineering conversations. Here's the full breakdown: --- ## Round 1: Phone Screen (DSA) **Problem:** Given a list of function signat...

**Phone Screen:** Key-value store with expiration. Functions: put(key, value), get(key), and get_average() (average of non-expired values). Data streamed in order of increasing timestamps. **Coding Round 1:** Word and phrase search in list of documents. **Coding Round 2:** Validate and solve Sud...