Atlassian·Software Engineer

Atlassian Software Engineer interview experience

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Charlotte, NCPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a phone screen with a recruiter, I scheduled technical rounds through a third-party Karat system.

That was the part that surprised me the most, because it was all “vanilla” JavaScript and the platform felt intentionally frustrating. I had to reason about expected outputs without being able to run anything, and it also included a separate HTML and CSS task where I had to style an image reference. There was also a challenge that required building a component using DOM manipulation.

The Karat environment itself didn’t provide the usual help—no formatting or autocomplete, and no obvious guardrails when something like an unclosed tag would derail me. It also didn’t let me ask clarifying

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