Atlassian P40 (sde 2)

Summary

I interviewed for an SDE 2 position at Atlassian, going through 6 rounds including an Online Assessment, Data Structures & Algorithms, Low-Level Design, High-Level Design, Management, and Values rounds, and received strong hire verdicts on most technical rounds.

Full Experience

Current company: FAANG
YOE: ~5yrs

R1 OA: Happened on Karat (3rd party provider)

1 LC medium
5 Multiple choice questions on system design
OS and database related questions

R2 DSA (Onsite)

Imagine you are the team that maintains the Atlassian employee directory. 
 
At Atlassian - there are multiple groups, and each can have one or more groups. Every employee is part of a group.
 
You are tasked with designing a system that could find the closest common parent group  given a target set of employees in the organization. 
 
            Company
         /           <br/>       HR               Engg
     /   \          /          \ 
    Mona  Springs  BE          FE 
                    /  \        / \ 
                 Alice Bob  Lisa Marley
 
Input Target employees - Lisa, Marley 
Output: FE 
Input Target employees - Alice, Marley 
Output: Engg 
Input Target employees - Mona, Lisa, Bob
Output: Company

3 4 follow ups were there

verdict: strong hire

R3 LLD

Design a ticketing management system.

verdict: hire

R4 HLD

Desgin a clickstream system and then extended it to tag management system.

verdict: strong hire

R5 Management round

In this round question will be asked on previous experience, prepare yourself as people get rejected in this round.

my verdict: hire

R6 Values

situational based questions

my verdict: hire

Waiting for the result, will add compensation later.

Interview Questions (3)

Closest Common Parent Group in Employee Directory

Data Structures & Algorithms

Imagine you are the team that maintains the Atlassian employee directory.

At Atlassian - there are multiple groups, and each can have one or more groups. Every employee is part of a group.

You are tasked with designing a system that could find the closest common parent group given a target set of employees in the organization.

            Company
         /           <br/>       HR               Engg
     /   \          /          \ 
    Mona  Springs  BE          FE 
                    /  \        / \ 
                 Alice Bob  Lisa Marley

Input Target employees - Lisa, Marley
Output: FE
Input Target employees - Alice, Marley
Output: Engg
Input Target employees - Mona, Lisa, Bob
Output: Company

Design a Ticketing Management System

System Design

Design a ticketing management system.

Design a Clickstream and Tag Management System