Graduate Developer Interview Experience - Sydney, Australia
Process
The first stage of the interview process was to complete a series of programming challenges on HackerRank over 90 minutes. Five questions were given; however, you only had to complete a minimum of two to progress to the next stage.
After this, there was a short 30-minute phone interview to gauge your interest in Atlassian and level of technical experience.
Finally, there was a 3-hour face-to-face interview, broken up into three different sections.
The first section was a technical interview, used for the interviewer to understand the breadth of your knowledge in software development. A range of questions were asked, from the security of web applications to object-oriented design principles.
The second section asked you to explain a project you'd worked on in detail, where you had to describe and reflect on the different decisions you made completing it.
The final stage was a Java coding test, where you had to implement a class while explaining your thought process to the interviewer.
The process was very smooth, and HR did a great job communicating with me in an understanding and timely manner. I ended up declining the (very generous) offer, as I had a competing one that suited me better at the time. I would definitely recommend applying to Atlassian; however, they were very hard to turn down!
Questions
What are the differences between a list, dictionary, and set?
For a hash map implementation of a dictionary, what are the different techniques used for resolving hash conflicts between keys?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Atlassian Graduate Developer role in Sydney, Australia.
Success Rate
Atlassian's interview process for their Graduate Developer roles in Sydney, Australia is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Atlassian's Graduate Developer interview process in Sydney, Australia.
Atlassian Work Experiences
- 2.0Lost its waySenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSydney, New South Wales, AustraliaMarch 20, 2025Pros: Pay is competitive in Australia. Offices are nice if you live near one.Cons: Culture and values are down the drain. Don't believe what they tell you on the careers website. A cut-throat engineering culture, brought on by the CTO, is expected. There's politics and opaque expectations from management, which can be rated as good one day and suddenly bad when it comes to performance reviews. (Stated as someone who has never received bad performance ratings but observes it from their team and wider co-workers).
- 1.0Generally a good place, but be careful about the team you're inSenior Developer • Former EmployeeSydney, New South Wales, AustraliaDecember 8, 2018Pros: Good perks in Sydney office. A lot of genius.Cons: There are always some "crap" in such a big company. Unfortunately, I am in a bad team, a really bad one. The team leader in that team didn't want to take any responsibility. He "forced" everyone to code the way he thought might fit the manager's preference. That manager jumped into the team from time to time to do some micromanagement, like at the code level. He nitpicked things like variable names or suggested that `lodash.get` is slower than `'a && a.b'` in a cached situation. (My argument is, as long as it's not a bottleneck for the app, why not make your code shorter and easier to read...) And they are arrogant in receiving any technical suggestions that differ from their own. Also, this team has a really bad work-life balance because the manager is just too ambitious.
- 4.0dfzxAssociate Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSydney, New South Wales, AustraliaMay 14, 2023Pros: Seems like a cool company.Cons: Don't have work experience here, but Glassdoor is making me write a review to look at stuff.
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