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
2.0
Jan 16, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Product is fantastic, with a great product market fit. Product leadership and engineering are going in the right direction in terms of evolving the product and offer to meet customer needs.

Cons

Toxic culture, lack of trust between teams and lack of accountability for processes and performance within the sales organization. Lots of ex-Oracle people who brought their culture over. Morale is poor across different teams, a lot of it due to the problems above. Many feel like they are walking on eggshells most of the time and anybody who tries to suggest improvements are typically singled out, while being told the opposite(invite innovation and creativity, but then punish non-conformity and going against status quo). Typical of many scaleups, you have managers who lack training and support to transition from individual contributors to people managers which contributes to those issues. It seems sr. leadership recognized this and are implementing manager training programs.

1.0
Sep 19, 2024

Don't do it

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay, opportunities for travel

Cons

You might be interviewing for the CAR role and wondering, is this a good opportunity? Why are there some many negative reviews? Why is Confluents rating 3.6? Why are there negative reviews about leadership in Barcelona? When there is smoke, there is fire. They sell the CAR role as being a 'Cloud Account Executive' to make you feel more important than you are. In reality, you're a glorified SDR that gets compensated for pushing through deals that aren't helpful for the real account executives or the business. This is just to make CAR leadership look good (they're under pressure for $0 commits not consuming much, so looks like that will bite them back). You don't get any formal training or support. If you struggle, you will be criticised and expected to own every single element of your development, instead of being given a plan to work on by your manager. Managers are reactive, and have little empathy. Managers will spew toxicity about you behind your back and prevent you from getting promotion so that you can help them to continue making their number. Most the money being made by CARs and CAR leadership is from CARs attaching themselves to deals they have nothing to do with. Managers encourage CARs to attach themselves to deals they have nothing to do with to make their numbers look better. The entire thing is a joke. If you are an AE with experience please do NOT go for this weird role that doesn't make any sense. Good luck!

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