Atlassian·Frontend Engineer

Atlassian Frontend Engineer interview experience

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SydneyPosted Jun 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a phone screen, then I had to jump into a live Karat interview setup that I hadn’t used before.

That session was vanilla JS and felt oddly rigid: it asked me to predict expected outputs of code I couldn’t run, fix issues based on what I saw, and also answer conceptual questions like the difference between bandwidth and latency. Then it moved into front-end implementation—first styling something with HTML/CSS using an image reference, and then building a component using vanilla JS and DOM manipulation.

The Karat IDE made everything feel more frustrating than it needed to. There wasn’t formatting or helpful tooling, and I couldn’t ask questions or get guidance if I got stuck. I remember

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