Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Confluent (Londres, Inglaterra) en sept 2019
Entrevista
After a recruiter phone screen, there was a remote code pairing technical interview with 2 engineers in California. The tone was set by one of the engineers stating that they wouldn't be there if they didn't love their job unlike others "waiting for an exit", (implying some others are just sticking around waiting for the company to go public) and laughing/snickering at the other engineer when during a recap of work experience they mentioned having previously worked at a big name company.
I was then asked how I would rate limit a function to prevent it from being called too often, to which I correctly answered "use a debounce function". Funnily enough I had seen that this question was asked already in another interview, but didn't think they would just reuse the same question.
I quickly implemented a debounce function in coderpad when asked which performed correctly, but was not on my a-game due to being someone thrown off by the interviewer's manner/style. I didn't remember to call the debounced function immediately on the initial call of the function, which the interviewer somewhat condescendingly pointed out after I'd written the function.
Overall not a terribly collaborative or pleasant interview experience, and it didn't feel like the process was designed to explore any depth of my knowledge or experience.
While I felt that my interview performance was not what I would have liked it to be, the overall tone of the interview didn't make me terribly surprised or disappointed to be told a few days later that they wouldn't be taking the process further.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Confluent (Londres, Inglaterra)
Entrevista
An assessment stage where you have to code in Javascript. Two questions from HackerRank where they will monitor your keyboard strokes and mouse movement. First question was relatively easy but I wasted too much time cleaning the code and unfortunately I do not have time to complete question 2
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Confluent (Londres, Inglaterra) en ago 2019
Entrevista
An easy interview, done mostly via Coderpad and Zoom. 6 stages.
Got an offer but after 10 days of waiting for papers, they have decided to withdraw it because I didn't have enough experience for the role. That was 4 days before I should start.
I don't understand why they even made me an offer if they were not certain that I'm right for the role. Very unfair and very unprofessional. I lost another offer while I've been waiting on them, unemployed.
I appreciate your taking the time to share feedback about your interview experience, but I'm dismayed to read that it was not a positive one. Having recently joined Confluent to lead Global Talent I would sincerely value the opportunity to hear from you directly. Candidate experience is of paramount importance and so too is your feedback. May I invite you to reach out to me directly?
My thanks, in advance, for your consideration.
Best,
Mike Podobnik, VP Global Talent