I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Atlassian (Sydney) in Mar 2020
Interview
I must have got my recruiter on a bad day, I really got the vibe she didn't want to be there.
I've been through the hiring process at Google (last round) and Amazon and this Atlassian interview was a bizarre experience. Phone screen consisted of 2 very pointed questions (she didn't even ask me to introduce myself), then the recruiter wrapped it up. I got the impression they were laser focussed on wanting the candidate to be good on paper rather than experience. ie: Do you have a background education in design? That's a strange way to determine whether someone is competent in design principles/techniques. That could have been asked in many other non-biased ways such as "Tell me a time you used UX techniques to validate an assumption or solve a problem."
Advice to Atlassian recruiters, if you're going to book a time in with someone actually interview them, get to know their experience and their personality rather than trying to shortcut the process (it's a 'Design' technique btw). Their time is as valuable as yours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are you working on now? (First question)
Do you have a background in design?
It was very slick, they have a well defined process which HR will talk you through. it will vary team to team a bit but they do explain things. Found I needed to ask some clarification questions though as there is a fair bit of complexity around their remuneration
Interview process was standard, but they ended up going with an internal candidate, per expectation. I had three interviews, with the hiring manager attending each. It was a little disappointing to find out they had just been going through the motions of interviewing, when they were already planning to hire internally.
Screen with the recruiter, then interviews with peer product managers and a culture fit interview. Recruiter checked in after every round except the last one. They didn't communicate a decision explicitly, but sent me a survey about my experience, at which point I figured they weren't going to hire me.