I applied online. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Confluent (Palo Alto, CA) in Sept 2018
Interview
1. Phone interview with recruiter
2. TEch phone interview with fellow COE -1
3. TEch phone interview with fellow COE -2
4. Onsite- Customer scenarios based questions - 1hr zoom
5. Live debugging of Kafka based problems- 1 hr
6. Java/ code debugging/ triaging questions- 1 hr
7. Managerial round - 1hr
Over all very professional interview process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Java code debugging, Kafka based code optimization questions
The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Confluent in Nov 2019
Interview
Was contacted on LinkedIn followed by 20 min call with recruiter and a 40 min call with hiring manager. I thought I did OK by answering the Linux questions and for additional questions on garbage collection , I did not go much forward. After the interview , since there was no word from the hiring manager about an on-site interview I realized , it’s an end of road. But , would be good if they communicated the same to the recruiter and me
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Linux questions like searching a process and how to know connectivity between 2 java process between machines
