Recently had an interview with confluent (India), the interview topics/interviewers per se it was ok. But the process or decision making per se, its WORST than a mediocre startup. Even saw this in one of the linkedin post as well. Also in blind saw another comment about down-levelling ??!!
My interviews went really well, solved all the problems without help from the interviewers, HM too had positive impression initially. Had to followup with recruiter for the feedback, recruiter never cared about updating. Got update that tech rounds were positive, moving to HM and collected pay details. The HM round went fine as well. But again the lazy ass recruiter didn't update me. Had to follow up.
The recruiter came back after a week and said we are moving ahead with other candidates. Seriously, WTF?
Apart from lethargic updates, I think the recruiter is not at the fault. It's the management, very poor in terms of setting up the process and decision making. I had high regard of confluent, but not any more.
When everything went well, why rejecting at the very end without giving a reason? Sure, confluent can reject/hire anyone, but the feedback should be clear, since I've spent my time and shared all the pays docs etc. At least for that tell the candidates why you are rejecting them. Total waste of time with assignments, interviews.
TC: 57L
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After collecting documents, I haven't heard anything for last 20 days. Whenever i ping, the recruiter says it's in TC approval phase
Which is why in the intro call itself I tell recruiter my salary expectations and only if ok I proceed ahead. But then again many recruiters promise all shit to just get in leads and fill the hiring pipeline. As such they dont care much.
Confluent India has an even worse university recruiting team. The presentation organized by the university recruiters across different colleges was a complete mess. They couldn't elaborate on how the compensation can increase manifolds if the company IPOs in the coming months. Also, there was no discussion on teams that operate from India. No discussion on the kind of work/tech a new-grad could get either.
As a consequence, the placement cell of the most colleges gave Confluent India a much later slot for selecting students. By then, most of the top students got selected in other companies. They didn't even get a chance to interview at Confluent even though most of them cleared their fairly easy online assessment.
The company handed a good CTC to absolute average students from no name departments (Not that I'm jealous of those students but there should be atleast some form of meritocracy at institutes of this level). The hiring bar was also very low.