Confluent - Interview Experience - Senior Software Engineer 1 - Toronto (Remote)

Hack2hire Community · 2026-06-03T00:25:27.156Z

Result: Pending Number of Rounds: 4 Interview Questions & Experience There was an initial call with the recruiter and an online assessment. Took around 2 weeks for them to get back to me after giving the OA. This was also maybe right when the layoffs happened. Then there was the VO. SD was designing an RSS feed. The interviewer was for some reason quite adamant about the back of the envelope calculations. First coding was tail -n, the second one was design inverted index. Inverted index was...

User-a250lJun 3, 2026

Confluent - Interview Experience - Senior Software Engineer 1 - Toronto (Remote)

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User-vv1tmJun 3, 2026

team matching pending is always the most nerve-wracking phase

User-lp25lJun 3, 2026

four weeks of silence during layoffs feels like a bad sign

cool.wheel2786Jun 3, 2026

Yeah it doesn't look good, but I'm also kind of desperate, as I don't have a job currently. If it was a definite rejection, it would have been a lot sooner right?