I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Atlassian (Sydney) in Jul 2019
Interview
I had a total of 5 sessions, not including the 40 mins I spent on the phone with he recruiter.
3 technical sessions + 1 with the hiring manager + 1 with HR ( I split the sessions into different questions)
Overall the process is very tech focused and quite challenging. It feels good to pass to the next round after each interview.
They are really focused on their values, so think if you are the right fit or not.
I would suggest them to be more direct during the management/cultural questions. I don't get the point of asking an open ended question to see if you can come up with an example that relates to their values. Being under this kind pressure blocks your mind, just be open and direct. Makes me think that getting things done or getting feedback is a very complex process. Not giving a thumbsup since the last interview round really ruined the whole experience, the technical side is great however.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Sessions:
1.- (1 hour) Imagine you are implementing Confluence pages permissions, what data structure would you use? If your page has children pages and you have access yo the parent page, then you have access to all the children but if you only have access to one child, you don't have access to the parent or other children.
3. (90 minutes) very heavy technical session, pretty much divided into three: \
1) describe some software architecture that you have worked on recently
2) Q&A about technical decisions on microservices, software design, security, databases and some SRE principles
3) Design an API to tag different resources across multiple Atlassian products
4. (45 minutes) Hiring manager asked a bunch of questions about team behaviour. Be humble here, prepare some examples related to the company values. If you get stuck in one or two questions try to move on or give some example that it's at least related. Try to talk about examples where you have been "the change you seek" and that you "don't s#!t the customer"
Be careful though, they will grill you until they hear an example related to their values and it has to be a strong example.
5. (45 minutes) HR session. Honestly the HR person couldn't care less about your technical abilities, it's more of a psychological evaluation. Again, what matters here is that your examples fit in a 100% with their values.
Recruiter reached out to me then ghosted in the middle of trying to set up a meeting. Very disrespectful of my time. Just as well, how a company treats candidates is usually a good indicator of how they treat employees
Didnt get past OA, heard now has ai process. People are good but company is going downhill. Unfortunate for all good culture fits there s a lack of opportunity admist apex reviews to produce meaningful work.
Nice interviewer but i did not get an offer. good experience anyway i think.
I have heard good things about the company culture so i think it would be a good place to work