I'm interviewing for a senior-level position, and they gave me an architectural question. I had a pretty simple and well-thought-out design for the given question because I had just performed this task in my current job only a couple of weeks prior. The interviewer was not familiar with any of the cloud technologies I mentioned (Lambdas, pub/sub topics, cloud scheduler), which made it difficult for her to understand my solution. I think she was so lost with the technologies I was using that she asked me to design the system without using those technologies.

I'm thinking, "WTF, if this is the workplace, I'm going to use the cloud technologies that best accomplish a task." I also know Atlassian uses AWS.

I asked her about her experience after finishing the question, and it turns out she's an entry-level (just over a year of experience) engineer. It made no sense why an entry-level engineer would be running a senior-level architecture question.

My advice to Atlassian would be to have qualified interviewers run the interviews. If you're going to have junior engineers run an interview, make sure there is a second qualified engineer present.

Design a system where you can schedule events to happen at a later point in time.