Is Confluent a good company to work for?

Confluent has an overall rating of 3.6 out of 5, based on over 760 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 65% of employees would recommend working at Confluent to a friend and 51% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Confluent have been left by employees working as Sales , Account Executive and Software Engineer .

Does Confluent pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Confluent employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Confluent. This rating has improved by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Confluent?

65% of Confluent employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Confluent 3.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.7 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Confluent?

Software Engineer (58) , Account Executive (51) , Senior Software Engineer (31) , Sales (29) , Sales Development Representative (SDR) (25) , Enterprise Account Executive (16) , Solutions Engineer (14) , Sales Development Representative (12) , Recruiter (11) , Sales Manager (10) , Senior Software Engineer II (9) , Manager (8) , Solutions Architect (8) , Cloud Account Executive (6) , Customer Success Technical Architect (6)

What are the pros of working at Confluent according to real employee reviews?

"Great people and great CEO." ((in 81 reviews)); "Good Pay and in line with the industry." ((in 49 reviews)); "The benefits are good." ((in 33 reviews)); "The Work/Life Balance is good" ((in 28 reviews)); "Confluent as a company is really doing great and has some great leadership." ((in 27 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Confluent according to real employee reviews?

"Bad manager?" ((in 16 reviews)); "Layoffs due to poor planning." ((in 7 reviews)); "middle management is getting worse and worse" ((in 6 reviews)); "Fewer formal training programs than larger companies" ((in 6 reviews))

What are employees saying about Confluent layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Confluent layoffs and their outlook for job security at Confluent in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Confluent locations?

Mountain View , Palo Alto , Austin , San Francisco , New York , Seattle , Boston , Washington , San Jose , Philadelphia , Atlanta , Chicago , Springfield , Dallas , California City , Edison , Alexandria , Florida , Raleigh , Coppell , Minneapolis , Cincinnati , Medina , Los Angeles , Santa Monica , San Diego , Fremont , Las Vegas , New Orleans , Kirkland

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Confluent reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(706 total reviews)

Jay Kreps

75% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Compensation and benefits

3.7

Culture & values

3.7

Diversity & inclusion

3.6

Work/Life balance

3.6

Career opportunities

3.1

Senior management

Confluent has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 706 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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Reviews by job title

706 reviews

5.0

Sep 6, 2018

Hyper-growth & Upward Mobility

Inside sales representative

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

I have been here for almost two years, and I love the Confluent family. It has been a crazy journey so far, and I am looking forward to the future of Confluent!

Cons

If you are not comfortable working in a startup environment, Confluent may not be the right place for you.

5.0

Sep 6, 2018

SDR

Sdr

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Its incredible here. Awesome benefits/perks, great work environment, awesome location (Downtown PA and right across from the Cal train station). The pay is good too.

Cons

None. Work hard and its soo rewarding. They look to promote from within as well.

5.0

Sep 6, 2018

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

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- super fast growing company - wonderfully smart coworkers; smartest team I've ever worked with - extreme internally transparency, decisions written down, KPIs 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 have very strong perspectives on our business strategy and share it freely, while using lots of data to course correct along the way. very much an engineering way of driving a company

Cons

- super fast growing company -- normal growing pains - we're moving from a pretty silo'd company to a very integrated one and the cross-team communications get overwhelming; and 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/going in circles a bit

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