Confluent interview notes, page 4 of 4

“Spent the first few minutes thinking about naive substring matching and then realized they probably wanted something more thought out.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Confluent, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Two pointers, advance the fast one n steps, then walk both until fast hits null.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Confluent, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight to Bloom filters for the uniqueness check which felt smart in the moment, but then the interviewer pushed on false positives and I kind of fumbled.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Confluent, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one spiraled fast.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Confluent, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the naive answer (read the whole file, slice the last N lines) because it's the obvious thing and I figured I'd get credit for knowing it's bad.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Confluent, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to just talk about the mail delivery path (MX records, forwarder, per-alias mailbox) and I spent probably too long there before getting to the interesting parts.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Confluent, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was basically eight questions stitched into one.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Confluent, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Part A felt manageable once I framed it as a constrained path search.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Confluent, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.