Atlassian Software Engineer interview experience

The main thing I remember is that the interviewer kept pushing me for a better time complexity, repeatedly steering the conversation toward optimizing beyond my initial approach.

I eventually landed on a solution using priority heaps, but the back-and-forth became very focused on efficiency rather than broader problem-solving. I didn’t make it past that round. Looking back, it felt like even when I produced a correct direction, I still wasn’t meeting the bar they were trying to land on.