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45-Minute Phone Screen with Rate Limiter Coding and System Design

AtlassianSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

45 minutes of coding + SD. It seems like there's no Karat anymore? The interviewer was also a current Atlassian employee. Coding Implement a simple rate limiter, assume all input values are valid. Part 1: check(time_bucket: int) -> bool The time bucket never decreases. Each call to this function counts as one more request in that time bucket. If the number of requests in the time bucket is greate…

Shared by a candidate · reported Aug 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.