Interview Experiences

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AtlassianSoftware EngineerSenior+
Sep 2026

Music Player Design and Product Discussions

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…

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AtlassianSoftware EngineerSenior+
Aug 2026

Shortest Unique Substrings for UI Shortcuts

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 <u> and </u>. 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…

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AtlassianSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Atlassian Software Engineer interview: AI-assisted password bug fix

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…

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AtlassianSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

Rate Limiter Phone Screen, Then a Rejection

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AtlassianSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

Passed the Rounds but Refused a Downlevel

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AtlassianSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

Passed a Coding Round I'd Seen Before, Then Walked Away

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…

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AtlassianSoftware Engineer
Nov 2025

Two Karat Screens Then a Five-Round Onsite

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What are interview experiences?

An interview experience is a candidate's own account of a hiring loop — not a question bank entry. It tells you the shape of the process: how many rounds there were, what each round actually tested, how long the gaps between them ran, and what the recruiter said at the end. That context is the part a question list cannot give you.

How to read them

Weight recent write-ups more heavily — interview loops change, often within a year. Read several for the same company and role rather than one: a single account tells you what one interviewer asked, while five tell you what the bar is. Note the outcome badge too, since a rejection write-up usually explains the gap far more precisely than an offer one.

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