Unlike other interview processes I participated in before (including a couple for big companies), both recruiters and interviewers treated me like a human being from the very beginning, not like a faceless guy behind a resume picked from a stack.

In other interview processes, I sometimes felt like I was talking to a "no-response" mail bot when I needed to ask for something. The staff at Atlassian is very friendly and didn't take long to answer my questions; they made me feel that my concerns were their concerns.

The recruiters gave me almost immediate feedback from the on-screen interviews, which kept things transparent and helped me improve for the next stages. They also gave me some pointers to be prepared for the following stages.

The technical interviews weren't difficult and were entertaining.

The time wasn't bad, but I think it could be better (approximately 2 months).

Among the questions and coding tasks I remember:

• Finding a common ancestor in a graph.
• Solving a problem using the Either Haskell datatype, but implemented in Java.
• Explaining how the Java Classloader works.
• Extending and writing unit tests for a proposed architecture.
• Writing a parser for a hellish file.