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Atlassian Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 16 Jan 2025

Top Atlassian Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Atlassian Senior Software Engineer Interview Experiences

9 interviews found

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Not Selected
Round 1 - Coding Test 

DSA round leetcode style question

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Design + Coding round for rate limiter

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Final round - System Design
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Karat Interview for next filtering the candidate

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Design Snake Game (Nokia based)
  • Ans. 

    Design a classic Snake game based on Nokia phones.

    • Use a 2D array to represent the game board.

    • Implement logic for snake movement and growth.

    • Include collision detection with walls and itself.

    • Add food items for the snake to eat and grow.

    • Display the game on a grid-based interface.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Ballot based voter

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Design Snake game LLD

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
6-8 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Jun 2024. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

This was Karat round. Involving System Design and OOPs based 2 problems in 1hr

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Ranking based question

Round 3 - Coding Test 

LLD round around basic questions

Round 4 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. OOPs concepts, Multithreading
  • Q2. Scaling large scale apps

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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Rate Limiter with possible test cases
  • Ans. 

    Rate limiter is a mechanism to control the rate of requests sent to a server

    • Implement a sliding window algorithm to track the number of requests within a specific time frame

    • Set a limit on the number of requests allowed per unit of time

    • Return an error response when the limit is exceeded

    • Test cases: 1. Send requests below the limit - should be successful. 2. Send requests above the limit - should receive an error response

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Rank teams based on some criteria
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Job scheduler system design round
Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Jul 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

60 mins Karat round with a mix of general questions around the language and then 40mins of frontend tasks.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be quick with your Karat interview.

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Dec 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Karat interview system deaign
  • Q2. Karat interview coding question
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I was interviewed before Mar 2023.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Write code to find count of characters in string.
  • Ans. 

    Count characters in a string using array of strings.

    • Iterate through each string in the array

    • For each string, iterate through each character and increment count

    • Return the total count of characters

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Coding related questions
Round 3 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Atlassian Values

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Sep 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Least recently used rate limiter

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Atlassian Senior Software Engineer interview:
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
-

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Jun 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Large scale system design interview
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Two DSA questions related to Arrays & strings

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Design URL shortener
  • Ans. 

    Design a URL shortener service with features like shortening, redirecting, tracking, handling collisions, and providing analytics.

    • Use a hashing algorithm to generate unique short URLs from long URLs

    • Store mappings of short URLs to original URLs in a database

    • Implement a redirect mechanism to direct users to the original URL when accessing the short URL

    • Track the number of times each short URL is accessed and store this da...

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Atlassian Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Atlassian Senior Software Engineer interview?
Atlassian interview process usually has 2 rounds. The most common rounds in the Atlassian interview process are Coding Test, Technical and One-on-one Round.
How to prepare for Atlassian Senior Software Engineer interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Atlassian. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Atlassian expect are JIRA, Agile, Backend, Javascript and Python.
What are the top questions asked in Atlassian Senior Software Engineer interview?

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  2. Rate Limiter with possible test ca...read more
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