I applied online. I interviewed at Atlassian (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2021
Interview
One tech screening round followed by 5 round onsite.
System Design, Coding, Values, Manager and SRE craft.
Though most of interview round fairly made sense, the values and manager round seem to be repetitive.
The system design round did not seem to be inline with how SRE's understand system. The interviewer seemed to be from a backend background and only enquired about schema and api design. Apart from that he also seemed to be one of the engineers who have a preconceived notion of a solution(just because he knew dynamoDb , it doesn't mean that everyone in the world knows it). He was opinionated and interviewing with him was quite a negative experience.
Recruiter failed to give feedback or even let me know the result. He kept on mailing that he would update, but never did. Didn't even bother to send a simple deny email.
I sincerely hope it was just my recruiter and is not a usual practice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tagging system
rate limiter
values and leadership based questions
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Atlassian (McLean, VA)
Interview
2 interviews in 1 day at the start, one technical and one design. Both were done with proctors who asked questions surrounding the existing team I would be joining. I don't think the interview process was difficult and appreciated the discussion I had during the design interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design a system to handle rate limiting for an API?
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Atlassian
Interview
Two screening calls, one interview prep call, and six rounds of interviews. Coding rounds were very much of the "gotcha" variety. Beyond the basic requirements outlined at the start each had an additional, opinionated requirement, and there's no way to discover what that is until it's too late to refactor. If your solution (one of many possible, each with tradeoffs) contains the magic thing, Atlassian lets you through. Otherwise you're out.
Atlassian runs a large number of candidates through the interview process, then runs something closer to a lottery than an evaluation in order to whittle down the numbers. Not good for the candidates OR their employees having to constantly run interviews!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding rounds were for a middleware URL router and a multi-user rate limiter.