I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Atlassian (Mountain View, CA) in Oct 2017
Interview
One of the best interview experiences I had so far. Quick responses from recruiters. Very nice team. Excellent company culture.
Applied online got a call within couple of weeks. Then had a quick call with the recruiter about my skills and experience.
1st Interview - 2 SRE leads Video Call - mostly behavioral and culture fit questions discussed my past experience.
Q. Tell me about a situation when you had to change something in the existing project and how did you achieve the same?
Q. How do you deal with a situation where you dont agree with one of your teammates.
2nd Interview - Online HackerRank take home test - 5 algo/DS questions. Difficulty increase as the questions proceed. You can pass this round if you get at least 3 with all the test cases passing. If you get pass this step next is onsite interview
Onsite Interview
1st Round - Senior Site Reliability Engineer & Site Reliability Engineer (Technical, Coding)
Basic algo questions on DS like when would you use HashTable? Array/ArrayList questions. Sorting technique questions. One Coding question on coderpad and Big O notation analysis for the solution coded.
2nd round - Head of SRE & SRE Team Lead (Management/Behavioral)
This is mostly discussion on what are your expectations and understanding about the role.
3rd Round-SRE Team Lead,Engineering Team Lead (Technical, Ops Review)
This was mainly a deep dive in one of my current projects with tech details on why you designed it in a way you did. I would suggest to pick one of your projects where you can showcase your depth of knowledge and prepare well to dive deep into technical details.
4th Round - SRE Manager (Values)
They give a lot of importance to values of the company so make sure you go over those thoroughly. Also the questions you can expect in this round are mostly on have you practiced some of their values in your past experience . For example one of the Values says be the change you seek so typical they will ask an incident where you have exercised this value.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Atlassian (McLean, VA)
Interview
2 interviews in 1 day at the start, one technical and one design. Both were done with proctors who asked questions surrounding the existing team I would be joining. I don't think the interview process was difficult and appreciated the discussion I had during the design interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design a system to handle rate limiting for an API?
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Atlassian
Interview
Two screening calls, one interview prep call, and six rounds of interviews. Coding rounds were very much of the "gotcha" variety. Beyond the basic requirements outlined at the start each had an additional, opinionated requirement, and there's no way to discover what that is until it's too late to refactor. If your solution (one of many possible, each with tradeoffs) contains the magic thing, Atlassian lets you through. Otherwise you're out.
Atlassian runs a large number of candidates through the interview process, then runs something closer to a lottery than an evaluation in order to whittle down the numbers. Not good for the candidates OR their employees having to constantly run interviews!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding rounds were for a middleware URL router and a multi-user rate limiter.