I received an e-mail from Atlassian HR asking me to apply for an engineering role with their Tooling and Automation team. It had an attached questionnaire, but the e-mail addressed me with a completely different name, albeit suspiciously of the same race/ethnicity as mine.

I replied to reconfirm if the e-mail was sent by mistake. The HR apologized, saying it was a "typo".

Giving her the benefit of the doubt, I filled up the questionnaire, only to be told a few days later that I didn't make the cut. There may be genuine reasons to reject me; however, I also suspect Atlassian HR was just trying to meet their diversity quota and the team had probably finalized their hire or had different hiring plans.

Getting rejected is fine – we learn, adapt, and move on. Feeling like I was "gamed" by the company to meet their internal diversity quota was very disappointing. It's hard to believe how such a mistake could be made.

A "typo" is making spelling mistakes, not addressing someone by a completely different name. It also seems like the HR was in a massive hurry, trying to fill up a quota by picking up a list and firing off e-mails.

A screening questionnaire asking a range of questions on automated tests, test flakiness, etc.

For example: "Have you encountered test flakiness in tests? What were common reasons? How would you improve the robustness of the tests?"