Atlassian Software Engineer interview experience

I didn’t even get to ask questions of my own, and the recruiter kept it very one-sided—asking a few generic prompts, writing down my answers, and moving on. A few days later, I received a no-reply email saying I wasn’t moving forward.

That same theme of “you’re out even if you think you did fine” followed me in a later attempt. I went through a long, months-long loop of interviews and was ultimately rejected at the very end by the final hiring committee. It was mentally draining, and what stuck with me most was how the process didn’t feel like it reflected how well I’d do in the actual