Atlassian

My Atlassian internship process began with an on-campus coding assessment. The test was conducted on HackerRank and had three DSA problems to be solved within 90 minutes. I found the assessment fairly challenging because the questions were not all of the same difficulty. One problem involved binary search, while another required more careful reasoning around a sequence of directions, and the third was comparatively more involved. An on-campus candidate report also describes a three-question, 90-minute assessment with the test being proctored. Once I cleared the coding round, I was called for the technical interview. This was not simply a standard LeetCode question where I could write a solution and finish. The interviewer was interested in my thought process, so I first discussed the possible approaches and then moved towards the optimized solution. My question was related to graphs and I had to use BFS, with follow-up variations being introduced after the initial solution. A separate on-campus internship experience reported exactly this style of technical discussion: one graph-based DSA problem followed by variations. I was also asked questions around my projects during the interview process. I had to explain what I had built, why I had selected particular technologies, and how I had approached some of the implementation decisions. This made me realize that mentioning a project on the resume means being prepared to discuss its internals rather than just giving a high-level description. The final conversation was quite different from the technical round. It focused on Atlassian's values, my previous experiences, teamwork and situations where I had to deal with challenges or disagreements. The interviewer asked behavioural questions and followed up on the examples I gave. Atlassian itself describes its values interview as a conversation intended to understand the mindset behind a candidate's actions, rather than simply checking technical ability. I eventually received the selection confirmation for the internship. What stood out to me about the process was the balance between coding ability and the way I communicated my decisions. I had prepared heavily for DSA, but the project discussion and values round also mattered. I therefore found it useful to prepare concrete stories from my projects and teamwork experiences instead of preparing only technical questions.