Great company, great technology, humble/smart people - Systems Engineer Confluent Employee Review

5.0
Sep 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The headline probably says it all, Confluent has a great technology with Kafka and the Confluent components. Engineering is really a strong part of what the company does and this shows with our push into the cloud across all three major players: GCP, Azure and AWS. There's a lot of latitude for growing your career and the people you work with are very smart (way smarter than me!!) yet humble so they don't brag about being smarter than me! LOL

Cons

We are a global company, yet too US centric. I work remote in the APAC region and wish things were a bit more World-focused.

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4.0
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Pros

Great product, strong leadership, and talented people across the organization. Excellent place to learn enterprise SaaS sales and grow quickly as an SDR. Supportive team culture, good training, and a fast-paced environment with many opportunities to work with large global accounts. Strong compensation and career development opportunities for high performers.

Cons

Since the IBM acquisition, there has been uncertainty around the future structure and career path for SDRs. Communication could be more transparent regarding organizational changes, promotion opportunities, and long-term strategy for the SDR organization.

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