
A foundation legitimately built upon values and collective drive to win as a team.
Honestly, the people I work with at Confluent are like nothing I've experienced anywhere else. This place is legit.
While the cash compensation is solid and competitively standard, bonuses are level/team dependent. The real win however is equity, for which the upside is massive, given company run-rate.
The leadership team at Confluent is comprised of transparent, humble, experts in their respective field who are also amazing humans. The balance of drive, humility, and sincere empathy is a phenomenal combination.
My team is genuinely focused on the ideal of "teaming" and winning as a collective sum of parts vs. individuals. That philosophy is reinforced through decisions, like not to stack rank nor apply bell curves in performance cycles.
There was a loose, but clear plan and structure behind the interviews. I didn't feel like interviewers were unprepared and asking me the same questions, yet they also didn't appear prescriptive to the point that we couldn't converse.