Atlassian Software Engineer interview experience

For example, I was asked how I would troubleshoot a system that slows down as it scales, and then I moved into smaller coding-style tasks like checking whether one string was a subsequence of another. The interviewer also signaled there weren’t huge optimization needs—just a few dozen strings—so the emphasis felt more on reasoning than heavy performance work.

After that quick start, I went into two coding rounds. One focused on building a scoring system that could output totals and averages, and the other was about finding overlapping intervals. I felt misled by the idea that test cases were