Pros: Great leadership that is extremely transparent. Amazing co-workers that are extremely smart and give you confidence in the ability to execute within the company. Amazing growth and exciting tech. Confluent places as much value in its people as it does in its product.

Cons: This is a demanding job. The tech landscape is ever-changing, and this product is on the edge of innovation. People who aren’t motivated by this may find this job extremely challenging.

Pros: Confluent embodies the modern, transparent, open-source startup. It is fast-paced, collaborative, distributed, and the executive leadership is tuned into the needs of the modern engineer (since they are all modern engineers themselves). * The brand is super strong and sales are good. Competition is fierce in this space, but being the company behind Kafka really helps. * Above-average compensation for a startup. * The code quality is exceptional, and the infrastructure and tooling are right up there with the best and continuously improving. * Cutting-edge technology and ideas. * Team members are all experienced in this space and willing to put in the work needed to get stuff done. * Comfortable office in a great location (right next to the train station in Palo Alto). * Remote employees are considered well (sympathetic work-from-home days, all meetings and meeting rooms have video conferencing equipment, etc.). * Product offering is very forward-thinking.

Cons: - There are a lot of discussions about product direction that involve so many people (because of the aforementioned transparency) that it could be considered distracting. This is only a con if you're the type of person that would rather not be involved in higher-level strategy, though; for someone who wants this, it's just another positive. - Being so distributed plus growing so quickly means there are the occasional logistic problems here and there.

Pros: Fair package per experience and interview performance. Non-toxic environment. Great career path opportunities.

Cons: Technology is a little bit hard to learn at the beginning.