Confluent

I was contacted on LinkedIn, followed by a 20-minute call with the recruiter and a 40-minute call with the hiring manager. I thought I did okay answering the Linux questions. For additional questions on garbage collection, I did not go much further.

1. Phone interview with recruiter 2. Tech phone interview with fellow COE - 1 3. Tech phone interview with fellow COE - 2 4. Onsite: Customer scenarios based questions - 1hr Zoom 5. Live debugging of Kafka-based problems - 1 hr 6. Java/code debugging

I applied online and was contacted by a recruiter after one week. I then had a phone interview. The interviewer was so nice. I was happy with the interview process, even though I failed it.