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A Linux-Heavy Super Day With No Feedback

ConfluentSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Jan 2026

Role: Confluent - Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Traffic Screen: look up a word in a given file — each line of the document is one sentence. First find a word in the document, then as a follow-up find a phrase/sentence in it. Just talked through the approach at a high level; optimizing with a hashmap was enough. The feedback said I needed hints. VO (super day) — Specialty: intense grilling on L…

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