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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Feb 22, 2022
      Anonymous employee
      Wellington, Wellington
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Atlassian (Wellington, Wellington) in Sep 2021

      Interview

      The interview process had 7 steps: - phone call with recruiter - 2 coding interviews 1 hour each with 15 minutes break - 1 hour System Design - 1 hour Craft - 45 minutes Values - 1 hour with the Engineering Manager of the team I was going to join I know the amount of them might be different depending on the level you're applying for. The recruiter was really great - talked to me a lot, never left me without updates for weeks (like some people do), usually send me some message almost daily to keep me informed on how things are going. He was also very polite and friendly. Atlassian also has nice preparation guide to give you some time in advance to think about topics to share (no week-long unpaid homework). The interviews themselves are great too - all people were friendly, asked pretty good and relevant questions, and encourage the open discussion rather than exam. There wasn't enough time to ask all the questions, but people were happy to stay a bit longer, which is much appreciated. I will add a bit more specificity about some steps below. The coding interviews were not so much about coding (some basic stuff was involved for sure), but rather about teamwork, engineering practices, ability to explain things and to think about different edge cases, which I always value myself. Both System Design and Craft interviews are about Engineering + Product mindset - how you think about customer, performance, security, UX, etc. while building the product. Values were... well, more or less classic values interview, conflicts, communication style, finding agreement and getting buy-ins, etc. The last one was probably a mix of everything before (except coding) specific for the team you're planning to join. To summarise some good things: - friendly people which make you feel relaxed - pragmatic questions aligned with your daily responsibilities - nothing like "write this algorithm which you'll never going to use on paper from you memory in 30 seconds" - no attempts to push you or show that interviewer is the smartest person in the room - prompt communication, quick interview scheduling - no requests to send a CV (it's available in LinkedIn, but people still ask it all the time), cover letter (hello 19th century lovers) or reference letters A little thing to maybe improve - there are a lot of steps, and in quite a few places they are overlapping with each other. Maybe worth checking if the process can be shortened a bit.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Q: You need to build a Jira board. Describe your approach, edge-cases, etc. Q: How do you deal with the Tech Debt?
      Answer question
      9

      Other Principal Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Atlassian

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 14, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Sydney
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Atlassian (Sydney)

      Interview

      Standard process for a platform engineer (SRR) role, around what you have completed. Completing a coding exam on data structures for this role is unusual though. Role seemed more for application development than SRE.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Coding exam around structures. Example of where you have encountered difficulties in role.
      Answer question

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Oct 28, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Atlassian

      Interview

      Coding task, algorithms. It was not very difficult, all worked. But probably was not as good as it should be. Interviewer was polite and professional, task was described, we had a chat about solution steps.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What is the computational complexity of solutions algorithm's?
      Answer question

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Nov 11, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Atlassian (Bengaluru) in Sep 2025

      Interview

      Had a great interview experience at Atlassian. The HR of company are friendly and responsive, interviewers are knowledgeable and positive during interview. I had a total of 6 rounds of interview 1. HR - HR just asks about your experience and check skills based fitment. 2. System Design - Question - Design a Url Scarping System. I was able to solve this. However the expectation is go deep and design the core Scrapping API. Which I was able to do after the interviewer insisted. So be ready to show case your API design skills, URL, Request, Response, Data Model etc. Also be ready to provide the tech stack along with tradeoffs. 3. Leadership and Craft - Lot of questions around delivery, project management, stakeholder management, mentoring etc. I did pretty well in this. 4. Values - This is about atlassian values, HR will tell you how to prepare for this. I did pretty well. 5. Data Structure - Last Hero Problem. In an F1 race find the person who has done fastest lap in all of race. I solved it using HashMap of racer and max lap time. Later on I sorted the map and gave the last lap hero. I made a silly mistake and my test cases were failing. Hence I did not make it. 5. LLD - I dont remember the question. It was around Most Popular content. I used HashMap for storing content and frequency (thumbs up/thumbs Down)

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design a Url Scrapping System for scrapping photos from urls. You are given a list of seed urls and then you need to expand to other sites from there
      Answer question
      1

      Atlassian interviews FAQs

      • Principal Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Atlassian with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 29% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Principal Software Engineer roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 17 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Atlassian overall takes an average of 29 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Atlassian as a Principal Software Engineer according to 17 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Skills test:  33%

        Phone interview:  27%

        One on one interview:  24%

        Group panel interview:  3%

        Other:  3%

        Background check:  3%

        Personality test:  3%

        IQ intelligence test:  3%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Software Engineer(614) ;
        2. Senior Software Engineer(281) ;
        3. Senior Support Engineer(82) ;
        4. Product Manager(67) ;
        5. Technical Support Engineer(65) ;
        6. Software Developer(58) ;
        7. Engineering Manager(52) ;
        8. Program Manager(50) ;
        9. Support Engineer(47) ;
        10. Principal Software Engineer(42) ;
        11. Senior Product Manager(38) ;
        12. Software Engineer(Internship)(34) ;
        13. Product Designer(33) ;
        14. Data Scientist(29) ;
        15. Senior Data Scientist(29) .


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