
Being able to work with cool technology that touches everything.
The ones that remain, did not quit the company. Smart people: Chief Revenue Officer, Global head of Sales, Chief Financial officer all quit in 2023
The people were good at what they did and smart so they were easy to talk to. They weren't stuck on buzzword bingo and in the weeds technical details.
Still lots of great people at Confluent. Its the new CFO, new Global Head of Sales that do not have any relevant experience. We don't have a Chief Revenue Officer to reign in the nonsense so bad decisions just get worse.
Confluent was a really great company and the technology stack is amazing. Confluent Kafka has defined a whole new event driven market. Sadly they have not invested in software engineers, especially network engineers so many product features have been pushed for over 2 years. (PL on Azure, GCP)