I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Atlassian in Dec 2024
Interview
The interview process was simple: two practical coding rounds and one system design focused on API design and understanding the service's product needs. Evaluated as P60/hire with overwhelmingly positive feedback on all. Overall technical part was pretty easy for a company of such caliber.
This was followed by a pleasant leadership craft round and a casual values interview (similar to behavioural, but focused on values and non-level defining).
Surprisingly, the values interview led to rejection. I rewatched the whole interview and found nothing suspicious.
Takeaways:
1. The process is most likely an utter waste of time.
2. Prepare thoroughly for the values interview and hope for a reasonable interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding: rate limiter,
System design: tagging system
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 Sept 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