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Fast-growth business, cool tech, and wicked-smart coworkers

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Confluent for 1 year
September 6, 2018
5.0
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Pros
  • Super fast-growing company.
  • Wonderfully smart coworkers; the smartest team I've ever worked with.
  • Extreme internal transparency: decisions are written down, and KPIs are shared broadly.
  • Lots of opportunities for both mentoring and learning from others.
  • Very, very cool technology, both in the streaming data space and the cloud/SaaS space.
  • Upper management has very strong perspectives on our business strategy and shares them freely, while using lots of data to course-correct along the way. It's very much an engineering way of driving a company.
Cons
  • Super fast-growing company, with normal growing pains.

  • We're moving from a pretty siloed company to a very integrated one, and the cross-team communications get overwhelming. The speed of decision-making and engineering productivity have (temporarily?) taken a hit.

  • So many new people constantly, and everyone tries to be helpful. But with a lack of history, it sometimes slows things down, and we end up revisiting earlier approaches or going in circles a bit.

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