Pros: There are no pros here.

Cons: It's remote and hard to collaborate. Managers and supervisors have different ideas and their own expectations.

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: Good medical benefits, great co-workers.

Cons: Hired on as staff, but days later lowered to senior. Excuse? Oops, we're sorry. Found out it happened to others too after starting.