Atlassian·Software Engineer

Atlassian Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

CanadaPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through Karat for the phone screen, and it felt heavily automated in how I was evaluated.

The interview itself was recorded, and the process seemed driven by AI scoring—both for my answers and even for the code. The interviewer’s role felt constrained, like they were following a script for what the system wanted rather than running a true human discussion.

The system design questions also felt odd in structure: they were treated like quick-fire questions where you were expected to respond immediately, sometimes with almost no time to really reason through the full design. Even when my coding seemed to work and I used solid data-structure choices, the AI evaluation still flagged

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