Atlassian

Role: Software Development Engineer

College: Not Specified

Interview Date: August 18, 2022 (Online Assessment), subsequent rounds 2 days later

Interview Type: Full-Time

Result: Selected

Difficulty: Medium-Hard

Rounds: 4 rounds

Topics Asked: Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Behavioral

Experience:

The hiring process at Atlassian for this SDE role consisted of 4 rounds.

Round 1: Online Hackerrank Coding Assessment

This round was conducted on August 18, 2022, with 3 coding questions to be solved in 90 minutes.

• Question 1: A simple prefix and suffix array question.
• Question 2: Simple to moderate, similar to "Number of subarrays with product less than K".
• Question 3: Simple to moderate, dealing with graph data structures.

Out of 317 participants, 20 were shortlisted for the interview rounds after solving all questions.

Round 2: Data Structures and Algorithms Interview

This round, lasting 45 minutes, focused solely on DSA. After introductions, a coding question (easy to medium difficulty) was presented. The candidate first explained a brute force approach and then optimized it, handling edge cases to ensure code reliability.

Round 3: System Design Round

This round, lasting 1 hour, started with an introduction. The interviewer asked the candidate to design a system similar to Google Excel sheets. The discussion covered functional and non-functional requirements, API design, client-server architecture, database design, and corresponding queries.

Round 4: Grad Values and Management Round

This 60-65 minute round involved behavioral questions. Questions included:

• Explain your project and your role. What were your learnings and what is one mistake you won't repeat?
• Give an example of a time when you had to teach something.
• Tell me about a time when you received feedback and how you handled it.
• Tell me about a time when you and a peer had a conflict of interest and how you persuaded them to change their mind.
• Tell me about a time when you showed initiative and it had a positive effect.

The candidate was fortunate to be one of the 5 students selected.