Hello all, I am giving confluent onsite interviews and I am getting good feedback from most of the interviewers (except a multi threading interview question. I did not know about a particular locking mechanism but he said, atleast you got the basic algo right, which in my opinion wasn't much. Just scheduling things from a priority q.) I have one system design round pending (which I decent at. The other SD interview was great). But I have been reading that the interviewers give a good feedback but yet may reject. How likely is that for my case? People say that they are hiring like crazy but then they are also rejecting people who got good feedback. I feel like i am already in the edge (due to the multi threading question) and on top of that if it is true that they can fake the good feedback, should I not count on getting the offer?
The first class I took from the interview training is, you should always make the interviewee feel good. So you might get good rating from the round you feel bad, but got bad rating from the round you feel good. Don’t trust your feelings, just wait for the result. Confluent usually gives feedback very quick.
Hey I just had my phone screen today with confluent. Any idea how long does it takes to hear back for on-site?
Thank you for both the comments. Makes sense. Even though I'd rather get no feedback than a false positive, but definitely a matter of preference. :(
Kyx makes a good point on the training. Also we have a lot more strong candidates post ipo from what I’ve seen. But the good news is we are usually opening another similar role as soon as we fill it so you may get another shot even if you don’t make it for the first role. Good luck!
I would suggest focus on the coming interviews and try to do best there. One bad interview may not cause a reject but 2 bad interviews will for sure raise doubts.
OP can you share SD experience?
Op did u pass eventually?
OP what was that locking mechanism? Conceptually, there is only one right? mutex/semaphore locks?
Which lock are we taking about here?
Never count on offer until you actually see it. I have heard stories where the recruiter verbally says there is going to be offer on table and days later they retract the statement. I have had good feedback from interview panels from FAANG and still didn't get an offer so YMMV.