The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Atlassian
Interview
Met with a recruiter and the conversation went really well and seemed like I was a good fit for the role.
Had an coding interview a week later. The interviewer read off a prompt about the problem and gave me a sample interface and runtime execution to work from. I had a bit of a slow start working through the problem and didn't implement the most efficient way of solving the problem out of the gate, but was able to make updates to be more efficient and had the execution working by the time the interview ended. I also tried my best to ask clarifying questions, explain my thinking, what I was doing, and why I was doing it.
Could I have done better? Sure, but coding interviews are nerve-wracking. And asking people to solve a problem in a way they wouldn't typically solve that problem is silly. How you solve leetcode problems is not how you write real software.
Got an email saying I was denied the next day based on the coding interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a service that tracks popularity of a given set of IDs (that represent some piece of content). Write code to increase/decrease popularity of a piece of content and a method that tells you the most popular content at any time.
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