Prepare for your Atlassian technical interview

System design, coding, and values rounds designed for Atlassian’s craft-first, team-oriented engineering culture.

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The Interview

What Atlassian is looking for

System Design Interview

01Collaborative Tooling Architecture

02Real-Time Sync & Eventual Consistency

03Multi-Tenant SaaS Patterns

04Extensibility & Plugin Systems

Coding Interview

01Clean Code Practices

02Algorithm Design

03Concurrency & Thread Safety

04Test-Driven Development

Values Interview

01Open Company, No Bullshit

02Build with Heart and Balance

03Play as a Team

04Don’t #@!% the Customer

Craft-first culture//Collaborative tool design//Values-driven hiring

Practice Library

Atlassian exercises

Ready to ace your Atlassian technical interview?

Prepare for your Atlassian technical interview

System design, coding, and values rounds designed for Atlassian’s craft-first, team-oriented engineering culture.

Socratify AI

The Interview

What Atlassian is looking for

System Design Interview

01Collaborative Tooling Architecture

02Real-Time Sync & Eventual Consistency

03Multi-Tenant SaaS Patterns

04Extensibility & Plugin Systems

Coding Interview

01Clean Code Practices

02Algorithm Design

03Concurrency & Thread Safety

04Test-Driven Development

Values Interview

01Open Company, No Bullshit

02Build with Heart and Balance

03Play as a Team

04Don’t #@!% the Customer

Craft-first culture//Collaborative tool design//Values-driven hiring

How It Works

Master Atlassian Technical Interviews

System design, coding, and values rounds, scored on Atlassian’s evaluation dimensions. · Click to expand

1Your Technical Goals

System Design

Practitioner

Algorithms & Data Structures

Practitioner

2Technical Case Prep

Design real-time collaboration for a Confluence-like editor with 10K concurrent editors.

CASE INTERVIEWHard

Atlassian

3Frameworks

Framework

How should the write path (URL creation) work?

Key generation strategy?

Base62 encoding: 7 chars = 3.5T unique keys

Pre-generated key pool avoids collision checks

Storage layer design?

100M URLs x 1KB avg = ~100GB — fits in single-node DB

Range-based sharding on short key for horizontal scale

How should the read path (redirect) work?

Caching strategy for hot URLs?

Redis/Memcached: 80/20 rule — 20% of URLs get 80% of traffic

Cache hit ratio target: 95%+

Redirect mechanism?

301 (permanent) vs 302 (temporary) — tradeoff: cacheability vs analytics

Non-functional requirements and tradeoffs?

Availability vs consistency?

AP system: eventual consistency acceptable for reads

99.99% uptime SLA = ~52min downtime/year

Rate limiting and abuse prevention?

Token bucket per API key: 100 creates/min default

4Feedback

System Design

Distinctive

Algorithms & Complexity

Strong

Code Quality

Meeting Bar

Technical Communication

Strong

Repeat

Practice Library

Atlassian exercises

Design the real-time collaboration backend for a Confluence-like document editor...

CASE INTERVIEWHard

Enterprise Software · System DesignAtlassian

Design a notification system for Jira that delivers real-time updates across web,...

LEARNMedium

Enterprise Software · System DesignAtlassian

Implement a function that resolves conflicts in a CRDT-based collaborative text editor....

LEARNHard

Enterprise Software · AlgorithmsAtlassian

Tell me about a time you had to balance shipping fast with maintaining code quality. How...

BEHAVIORALMedium

Behavioral · Build with Heart and BalanceAtlassian

Describe a situation where you had to give or receive difficult feedback that improved...

BEHAVIORALMedium

Behavioral · Open Company, No BullshitAtlassian