Atlassian·Software Engineer

Atlassian Software Engineer interview experience

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SydneyPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an AI-assisted backend coding interview where they handed me a fairly simple backend-style website with a bug to fix.

The session lasted about an hour, and the expectation was to use an AI coding agent while I worked through the problem.

In my case, the bug was in the password-related functionality, so I had to trace what was going wrong and adjust the implementation accordingly. What threw me off was the level of direction: the interviewer didn’t really coach me through the coding process or the way I should interact with the agent. It wasn’t totally clear whether they wanted me to rely heavily on the AI throughout or just use it casually—either way, I ended up feeling like my usage didn’t land the way

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