Confluent Software Engineer reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(60 total reviews)
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Jay Kreps

60% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Software Engineer employees have rated Confluent with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 60 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Confluent is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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60 reviews
5.0
Sep 6, 2018
Recommend
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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

5.0
Jan 25, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The leadership understands the power of the technology well. Hiring practices are largely successful in finding people who get along well and match personality-wise. There's an open communication style and humility present in the leadership team which trickles down to the whole company in an effective way. The company is quick to take action when it's clear a direction isn't working as expected. People are encouraged to grow into roles.

Cons

The middle management is inexperienced which leads to some rough edges around internal processes (e.g. meetings can be inefficient and lack outcomes, cross team collaboration can be bumpy).

5.0
Jan 22, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great systems & infrastructure company. Hard engineering problems to solve. Great team, generous culture. Top people in both engineering and non-engineering roles. One of the best open-source startups currently.

Cons

Not any yet, even after 1+ year.

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