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Atlassian interview preparation

Walk into Atlassian prepared.
Know what it looks for.

Collaboration software company building tools like Jira, Confluence, and Trello that help teams plan, track, and deliver work effectively. Atlassian interviews emphasize values alignment, teamwork, and the ability to build products that power team collaboration at enterprise scale.

What we know about Atlassian

Your preparation, in four steps

Take them in order, or start where you need help most.

  1. Step 1Learn how Atlassian hiresHear its values, its interview process and the questions it asks.Listen
  2. Step 2Build your storiesTurn your experience into STAR answers shaped around Atlassian.Open Story Bank
  3. Step 3Tailor your resumeWrite a resume for your target role at Atlassian, from your own experience.Open Resume Studio
  4. Step 4Practice out loudRun a mock interview with an AI interviewer. Get a written report on what to fix.Start practicing

What Atlassian's rounds look like

System design at Atlassian

Length
60 minutes
Tracks
Systems Design, HLD, Architecture & System Design
Levels
P40, P50, P60

Known to ask

  • Add tags for related content across Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and Trello, scaled to 100 million tag requests a day
  • Atlassian tags management (API design, DB schema, microservices, scaling)
  • Design a web crawler
  • Design a job scheduler
  • YouTube-like home page for Confluence showing the most engaged-with documents, hiding docs the user wrote or read
  • Top-k heavy hitter Confluence pages, excluding pages the user has already viewed
and 4 more

From Atlassian's hiring pages and candidate reports, read 2026-10-27.