What to expect in the Confluent - Engineering - Remote interview process

## Confluent Software Engineer Interview Guide & Process Confluent, founded by the creators of Apache Kafka, is the leader in data streaming. They require extreme depth in distributed systems and JVM/C++ internals. ### 1. Recruiter Call (30 mins) Assessing interest in infrastructure and data streaming. ### 2. Technical Screen (1 hour) Live coding session. Focus is on concurrency, data structures, and optimal performance. ### 3. Onsite (5 hours) - **Distributed Systems Design:** Architecting high-throughput, low-latency log storage and stream processing. - **Deep Coding:** Concurrency problems and advanced algorithms. - **Experience / Behavioral:** Deep dive into highly complex systems you have previously scaled.