I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Atlassian (Sydney) in Apr 2020
Interview
There were three major portions of the interviews. After applying online an Hackerrank coding challenge was given. That was followed by a phone interview round with the recruiter which was mostly behavioural. The final rounds had three interviews back to back. A Values rounds, Technical round (security concepts & scenarios ) and a coding round (the question was from Leetcode). After a week of the final round my recruiter got in touch with feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical round:
1. XSS and mitigation
2. SQLi
3. Credential based attacks & mitigation
4. Bash scripts
Coding round:
1. The question was related to graphs.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Atlassian (Sydney)
Interview
Resume Screen:
Initial screen to make sure experience matches job description.
Technical Coding Test:
You will be invited to complete an online Hackerrank assessment. 5 question split of approximately 2 LeetCode easy, 3 LeetCode medium.
Phone Interview:
Casual phone interview with your recruiter to roughly gauge skills/experience/familiarity with company values/security teams. These will be passed on to subsequent interview phases as basis for further questions. Little to no chance of being exited in this phase.
Online Interviews:
3x online video interviews consisting of a technical interview, a coding interview, and a culture interview.
Technical interview will be broad based questions drawing from any and all streams of security including identifying and remediating/mitigating attack vectors, security principles, and networking. This round is run by an engineer in the team.
Coding interview will require you to walkthrough a LeetCode easy question with an engineer that has experience in your chosen language. Question will be relevant to the role that you're applying for. Good to have some experience with data structures, debugging and communicating your thought process.
Cultural interview has several questions to determine fit with atlassian values and general attitude in the workplace. This will be run by a manager. Come prepared with examples in STAR format.
Post Interview:
Within a week of interview completion there will be a call with your recruiter discussing your feedback on all previous interview rounds. They will then have another follow-up call to determine if an offer will be given.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Atlassian
Interview
The interview process was straight forward:
1. Recuiter interview - mainly talking about the role and my experience
2. Hiring manager interview - more in-depth skills and experience discussion
3. Technical interview - three very basic questions / scenarios
4. "Team Fit" interview - personal values / team fit / banter / discussion
These interviews are spaced out over about a month.
Made it through the fourth interview with positive feedback and up until now it was a very positive experience. Then two months passed with zero contact from Atlassian. Complete radio silence. I had reached out for an update several times with no response. Eventually, the recruiter told me that although I was better suited for the role they were "obligated to go with the triple threat". This was apparently a term regarding race, gender and sexuality. As an "equal opportunity employer" that comment didn't sit well with me.