Confluent Interview Questions and Guide
Distributed logs and streaming (Kafka): replication, partitioning, ordering and exactly-once semantics.
The Confluent interview loop
- Recruiter screen
- Technical phone screen
- Onsite: coding, distributed systems design, and behavioral
Confluent interview questions
- Design a Distributed Key-Value Store
- Design a Distributed Message Queue
- Subarray Product Less Than K
- In-Memory Database (Multi-Part)
- Shortest Word Distance
- Merge Two Sorted Lists
- Binary Tree Level Order Traversal
- Minimum Knight Moves
- Step-By-Step Directions From a Binary Tree Node to Another
- Course Schedule (Ordering)
- Possible Bipartition
- Design a Task Scheduler
- Tell me about delivering a project across multiple teams
- Tell me about a difficult technical trade-off you made