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3935 interview stories from candidates at 857 companies: how each round went, what was asked and how it ended. Every company page links to practice questions in the same style.
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- 20 Minutes of Coding, 10 of System Design, RejectedAtlassian · Frontend Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Oct 2026Rejected
A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn and that's how I got this interview. Right after we talked, the interview invitation came the same day. The recruiter was extremely efficient. I just wanted to get in as fast as possible, so I only gave myself one week to prepare. Not being well prepared was also one of the reasons I failed later. I booked a technical screen for a week out. You can use yo…
- Music Player Design and Product DiscussionsAtlassian · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Sep 2026
The author describes interviewing for an ML/AI product engineering role with BCNY, a small company acquired by Atlassian, and cautions that this team’s process may differ. A phone screen used a music-player exercise to assess object-oriented design and communication, including playback controls, queuing, repeat behavior, and shuffled playlists. Onsite discussions included designing comments for a…
- 45-Minute Phone Screen with Rate Limiter Coding and System DesignAtlassian · Software 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…
- Shortest Unique Substrings for UI ShortcutsAtlassian · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Aug 2026
In a Web UI dropdown, users needed help quickly memorizing keyboard shortcuts. For every string in an input list, find its shortest unique substring and wrap that substring with the tags and . Implement a function that performs this transformation. The detailed requirements were: Uniqueness: The chosen substring must not appear anywhere as a substring of any other string in the input list…
- Atlassian Account Executive interview: five-week plan stretched to eight weeksAtlassian · Account Executive · Jul 2026
A recruiter told me the process would be structured, about five weeks long, with at least four or five interviews and a required presentation. Scheduling was the part that threw me off. My interview times kept being rescheduled, and while I understood that things change, it kept pushing the calendar. End to end, the process took about eight weeks instead of the original expectation. The loop soun…
- Atlassian Software Engineer interview: AI-assisted password bug fixAtlassian · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Jul 2026Rejected
After a recruiter screen, I had a hands-on technical interview built around AI-assisted coding. I was given a small backend-style website with a real bug and had to find and fix it while using an AI coding agent. In my case, the problem was in the password functionality, so I had to understand the existing logic, make the correct change, and stay consistent as I worked. What threw me off was the…
- Passed a Coding Round I'd Seen Before, Then Walked AwayAtlassian · Software Engineer · Onsite · Jan 2026Withdrew
I was contacted on LinkedIn. At the time I was already interviewing with several other companies at once, but I replied anyway to give it a shot. I passed the phone screen, then scheduled the onsite (VO) with the recruiter. Their onsite can be split across several days — day one is coding. If you fail the coding round, they don't move you on to system design. The first coding round was actually a…
