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%
Background check: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Group panel interview: 3%
Other: 3%
Personality test: 3%
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Atlassian in Mar 2024
Interview
Long and then it just abruptly ended. Had interviews over the course of 2 months: coding challenge, system design, and full stack interview. They each seemed to go really well, great feedback, but the recruiter didn't give me any feedback and said they are not continuing the process. He asked if I wanted feedback too, and I responded I did, but nothing. Oh well.
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Coding challenge was in Java. Had to sort a data structure and write a comparator.
Full Stack interview you just explain how a request response flow works beginning to end and how auth works, etc.
Systems Design you design REST APIs (no code) through white-boarding.
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.
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Coding exam around structures. Example of where you have encountered difficulties in role.
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.
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What is the computational complexity of solutions algorithm's?
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)
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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