RejectedOnsite

Passed Both Codings, Failed Both System Designs

ConfluentSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Feb 2026

The technical screening round overall was pretty simple. They give you a function query signature and have you determine whether there's a registered function that matches it. Later on this expands to cases involving optional arguments and variable number of arguments. The onsite had four rounds total. The first coding round was to implement something like printing the last N lines of a file, alo…

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