Atlassian·Software Engineer

Atlassian Software Engineer interview experience

Medium

Positive

Posted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview process started with a pretty casual opening where I introduced myself and the interviewer explained the plan for the session.

The technical interview itself started off structured too: they encouraged me to follow the rubric they provided, including clarifying the problem, walking through input format and edge cases, and handling edge cases early.

The coding challenge was a variant of the Lowest Common Ancestor problem. I worked through it using a recursive approach, and I had a brief moment where the solution path was unclear, but I eventually got it done and wrote tests to validate the behavior. The atmosphere turned lighter near the end, with a casual conversation and the interviewer expressing good

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