Atlassian·Software Engineer

Atlassian Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

SydneyPosted Apr 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for a Principal Engineer role and was expecting something that would reward end-to-end engineering judgment, but the process felt unusually strict.

The assessment centered on two coding design questions: one around a rate limiter and another involving data structures for a voting system. I worked in a test-driven development style and delivered solutions that passed the tests.

Even with working implementations, I was rejected. The feedback focused on nitpicky details like code style and Go-specific conventions, and it felt especially awkward because the interviewer admitted they weren’t familiar with Go. They also said using Google was acceptable, yet I still got marked down for it despite only using it once. The whole thing was framed

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