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Variadic Screen, Phrase Search and a Podcast Design Loop

ConfluentSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Aug 2026

I'm in Canada, interviewing for Senior I. Their old careers site has been shut down and you now have to apply through IBM, otherwise nobody pays any attention to you. It seems to be a transition period right now and the internal hiring pipeline is a bit of a mess. In two of my interviews, the interviewer didn't know they had to log into Teams, which threw things off. Screen: the classic isVariadi…

Shared by a candidate · reported Aug 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.