Confluent Software Engineer Interview Experience — HackerRank, Sudoku, Machine Coding and a DevProd Values Round

Online Assessment

A 60-minute HackerRank test with 3 coding problems.

Phone Interview (DSA Round)

Verify Sudoku (check whether a Sudoku board is valid)

Solve Sudoku

Machine Coding Round

Find word in a list of documents (find a specific word in a list of documents).

Find Phrase in the same sequence they appear in list of documents (find a phrase in the list of documents, with the words in the given order).

Behavioral Round

Values Alignment behavioral interview, mainly checking how well the candidate's past work experience matches the role, with these follow-up questions:

1. The candidate had said they wanted to work in a Distributed System environment, but this role is a DevProd role, which is not a distributed systems environment. The HM asked how the candidate sees this.
2. The candidate had always worked on customer facing teams and had no experience in a DevProd role. The HM asked whether the candidate could handle it and how they would deal with it.