Confluent reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(709 total reviews)
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Jay Kreps

74% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Confluent has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 709 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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709 reviews
2.0
Jan 16, 2023
Recommend
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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
Jan 16, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Unfortunately, I cannot say that the Coffee in the Office is bad.

Cons

Non-Realistic targets, with Management that only cares about their personal brand awareness in Linkedin/PR and less about the employees (Please just speak less about Cars and care more about your employees) The company is hiring more and more reps and managers although there is no need to - HQ has Headcount targets and doesn't care that the AEs will not sell anything. In 2023 I believe that Confluent will start layoffs due to the economic situation, which we already started to see that activity - hiring freeze, fewer expenses approval. Please also remember that the product is in a terrible situation, as MSK (AWS) and Red-Panda have a better Kafka solution, and Confluent is chasing them right now.

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