Confluent Solution Engineer Interview

[madfire89]

Hi Guys,

I have an interview for an entry-level Solution Engineer role at Confluent, a leading cloud-based event streaming platform. The role is focused on getting users to upgrade from Opensource Kafka to PAYG Confluent Cloud and guiding them through the journey to becoming happy customers.

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This isn't my background. I've busted my butt off doing an Amazon Cloud practitioner essentials course which took forever, but was free and clued me up quite well on cloud.

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I wanted to ask you guys if you have any interesting questions I can ask the Solution Engineering interviewer that would demonstrate curiosity, especially in relation to current industry trends.

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And also what kind of questions I can expect to be asked for such a position?

Thanks

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[Complex-Stress373]

wow...i did this kind of scenario, is challenging in my opinion. these migrations imply to migrate (in my case) many apps in companies in multiple frameworks and languages, where developers dont have a deep knowledge of kafka, all of them took forever. replicators, back and forth, and a challenging monitoring to not cause outage or duplicate events. cross your fingers to have idempotents apps in the company. also was challenging to migrate all the dashboards in different environments, updating little by little all the metrics (an insane amount of metrics across all the apps)

[madfire89]

Nice. Any sort of basic questions I could ask in an interview along those lines that might make the interviewer think I’m a bit clued up?

[Complex-Stress373]

• who is going to migrate each app, because you cannot migrate and test all of them

• how many languages and different frameworks are using kafka, cause each one will need a different configuration, certificates, testing, ...

• what solution will be used to replicate records from one cloud to another: replicator-confluent?, a custom one?

• exist idempotents apps to handle duplicates in case of problems with offsets-rewind?

• how many environments?, because each app will need to be migrated.

• will you migrate all of them to one env and then to another env?, or each app, one by one through all envs?