I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Atlassian in Nov 2021
Interview
Two easy code interviews.
I was surprised how Atlasssian does not monitor interviewers as the first interviewer was very arrogant and rude and racist.
while the second one was so friendly, polite and professional.
The first interviewer did not even let me explain and support my method and jump into my solution and mislead/interrupt me and I guess that was because of his lack of knowledge in my choice of programming language.
while I've got the best score for the second interview.
Anyway, I'm done with the Atlasssian and hope at least for the next candidate they consider using a proper interviewer.
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