Confluent reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(710 total reviews)
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Jay Kreps

74% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Confluent has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 710 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Confluent employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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710 reviews
1.0
Dec 21, 2023

Cant make any money - High pressure job

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Pros

Good package is offered with Stock options

Cons

However, you are not set up for success. Meeting targets is almost always impossible. Management has no interest in the customer success unless the customer is large. Weekly targets. Product is not at all easy to sell unless you have the right customers. Customers can choose to simply stop using Confluent. Technology is not critical to their business and Open source is very good too. Lots of competition with more affordable prices. Management has no vision or consistency of strategies. Hire and fire policy. 100% focus on sell sell sell. No patience for customer readiness. They are absolutely tight-fisted about any additional costs. Dont expect any travel / hotel stays / taxi bills getting approved. They want sales without any costs. :-)

2.0
Oct 31, 2023

Tough going!

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Pros

Great salary Great benefits Generous stock plan Really smart people

Cons

Seems like things are getting a bit toxic and fractious with new leadership from Oracle. People are generally quite unfriendly. Work life balance is awful - expect to be on Zoom calls until the evening

2.0
Jul 26, 2023

Abandon Ship

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Pros

Culture was great before the en masse exodus of strategic leadership from 2022 till early 2023.

Cons

Non-existential culture, workplace bullying, heavy politicking, sexual harassment. There are many things that went wrong that has been covered up by the leaders of this organisation. Good people get buried and great talent get ousted.

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