I applied online. I interviewed at Atlassian in Sep 2024
Interview
The interview process had 5 rounds: Recruiter screen, Coding 1 (DSA), Coding 2 (Code Design), Leadership, Values
Firstly the process - very well organised and transparent. The recruiter shared a lot of information related to the expectations before each round and the feedback after each round was provided within a reasonable time window.
Coding rounds - IMHO there was very little difference between both of them, the Code Design was very similar to DSA round, with just a slightly more complex problem.
Leadership and Values are both quite weird rounds as for me. Mostly overlapping questions.
Feedback: Generally I passed all the rounds with good feedback, however, some comments were somewhat surprising:
1. The Code Design round - scale-up solution was not as elegant as the initial one. Not sure what the elegant solution can be done within a 45 minutes time slot.
2. Leadership and Values - some answers were not explaining the problem in detail, for example the conflict that took place, or similar
In the end it took more than 2 weeks after all rounds to get to the offer, and I was downgraded to a Senior role mainly because of the values/leadership feedback. My leadership skills are generally impressive, but not as good for a Principal role. Rejected the offer and accepted a comparable Principal role at a different company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding (DSA) - top K items problem
Coding (Code Desing) - Rate limitter
System Design - Tagging system
Values/Leadership - typical behavioral questions
Standard process for a platform engineer (SRR) role, around what you have completed. Completing a coding exam on data structures for this role is unusual though. Role seemed more for application development than SRE.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding exam around structures. Example of where you have encountered difficulties in role.
Coding task, algorithms. It was not very difficult, all worked. But probably was not as good as it should be. Interviewer was polite and professional, task was described, we had a chat about solution steps.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the computational complexity of solutions algorithm's?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Atlassian (Bengaluru) in Sep 2025
Interview
Had a great interview experience at Atlassian. The HR of company are friendly and responsive, interviewers are knowledgeable and positive during interview. I had a total of 6 rounds of interview
1. HR - HR just asks about your experience and check skills based fitment.
2. System Design - Question - Design a Url Scarping System. I was able to solve this. However the expectation is go deep and design the core Scrapping API. Which I was able to do after the interviewer insisted. So be ready to show case your API design skills, URL, Request, Response, Data Model etc. Also be ready to provide the tech stack along with tradeoffs.
3. Leadership and Craft - Lot of questions around delivery, project management, stakeholder management, mentoring etc. I did pretty well in this.
4. Values - This is about atlassian values, HR will tell you how to prepare for this. I did pretty well.
5. Data Structure - Last Hero Problem. In an F1 race find the person who has done fastest lap in all of race. I solved it using HashMap of racer and max lap time. Later on I sorted the map and gave the last lap hero. I made a silly mistake and my test cases were failing. Hence I did not make it.
5. LLD - I dont remember the question. It was around Most Popular content. I used HashMap for storing content and frequency (thumbs up/thumbs Down)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a Url Scrapping System for scrapping photos from urls. You are given a list of seed urls and then you need to expand to other sites from there