I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Atlassian (Sydney) in Feb 2021
Interview
I was contacted by a recruitment firm based out of Sydney who have exclusive contract with Atlassian. The role is for "Backend Developer" - Contract job.
Total 2 rounds:
First round - mainly focused on Atlassian Core values and simple java program.
Second round: Pair programming to solve a problem - API rate limiter.
Very bad experience with the interview process. Followed up with the recruitment firm many times but no response or feedback on the interviews so far!
In fact I had a very similar experience 2 years ago with Atlassian interview process. I guess certain things about a company never changes.
Karat interview to start with.
After, two data structures and algorithms coding interviews with atlassian directly. Each of these interviews was an hour. Afterwards, they have a system design interview and then a culture interview, but I didnt reach those stages.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the questions involved api routes, but I dont remember the details. I had to use regex
1rd round Recruiter Screen: I got feedback in the end,
2rd round Karat's coding session: There was an enough time to solve a mid level coding question
3rd and 4th round: The solutions were to use data structures questions like treemap and dequeue. These were difficult.
They still do multiple coding interviews. One prescreen with Karat, which is 20 minutes of engineering questions and 40 minutes coding, then two 60 minutes coding session. And it's for a senior position in an era of AI agents. I believe that they spend too much time on coding rather than architecture. I didn't have time to finish it, got an offer from another company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Karat has a demo of their interviews, so check this out. Leetcode and CS basics. Can't remember anything outstanding.