I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Atlassian (San Francisco, CA) in May 2020
Interview
Spoke with a recruiter, had a tech screen, followed by an onsite. The onsite was not a great experience. It felt more of like a Frontend Developer than a Frontend Engineer.
There was 4 interviews in the onsite and each one felt awkward as the last. The manager at one point said to me that he accused me of reading off of a script or notes. It made me feel a bit disingenuous and uncomfortable.
There was no algorithm or leetcode questions asked. It was a straight up ES5 JS questions. During the implementation, I mentioned that I wanted to use a while loop, but he said that's incorrect and you have to use recursion for the problem. At the end, the interviewer muttered that I'm completely wrong in my implementation and when I mentioned that I heard that, he said that he didn't say anything.
The entire process made me feel terrible and I would not recommend an onsite process. The recruiter and tech screen were great people, but I did not get a friendly sense from the team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build an async method that calls itself n amount of times until success. Return fail if it could not succeed after n times.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Atlassian (Sydney) in Dec 2025
Interview
Karat (third party screening) rounds
- basic javascript coding + deeper concept quiz
Browser coding
- implement given mock UI interface with framework of choice
Javascript coding
- Given a document about X, build a class/utilities
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Atlassian in Mar 2022
Interview
I applied through the company's career site. Heard back from the recruiter a couple of days later. Schedule a 30 minute phone call with the recruiter to go over housekeeping items, my background, what I'm looking for, and to ask any questions I had.
It followed the normal behavioral interview practice where you go into you background such as past experiences and schooling. After, he started asking me some questions such as...
Overall, he was a nice guy and even provided multiple points of feedback on how I can improve.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Atlassian (Sydney) in Dec 2021
Interview
I applied through their website. Got an email from one of their recruiters a few days later and kicked off the interview process:
Initial call with the recruiter
Browser coding interview - build a navigation tree
Javascript coding interview - build a feature flag library
System design interview - basically the active sprint view of JIRA
[A bit of wait here because they need to match you with a team that needs someone that matches your skill level and interests]
Values - go through each of the company value and talk about your experience in the past and what you have learned from your mistakes.
Management - similar to the values one but more free flowing. You get to meet your future team lead here.
There were also 3 prep meetings with the recruiter 1 before the coding interviews, 1 before system design, and 1 before value & management.
One thing they seemed to have stopped doing since some reviews here were posted here was that they no longer to leetcode type questions. All the coding round questions were very practical, things you actually do on a day-to-day basis.
The whole process took me a bit more than 2 months, but I think that was mostly because it was the end of the year.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing particularly difficult or noteworthy in the coding interviews.
The system design one, be careful what you say. If you mention something that you're not actually very familiar with, chances are, they'll pick up the cue and grill you on it. There's not enough time to talk about absolutely everything about building an application in 1 hour, so maybe focus on what you're good at first.
For the values and management interviews, just make sure you prepare examples where you were challenged or had a difficult time. My mistake was that all my examples were too positive, so when they asked for a more negative example, I couldn't think of anyon the spot that I can demonstrate learning from.