Atlassian·Backend Engineer

Atlassian Backend Engineer interview experience

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PolandPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop for a senior position leaned very heavily on coding.

After an initial prescreen with Karat, the structure broke down into an engineering questions segment followed by a longer coding block, and then more coding sessions. The pattern was consistent: lots of time spent coding rather than architecture-level discussion.

I ran into a time crunch during the technical portion and didn’t end up finishing everything, and that ended up being a major factor in how the interview went. I eventually received an offer from another company instead, so I didn’t push this Atlassian process to completion.

What I remember most was the feeling that I was spending

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