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Summary
I am a final year student who successfully interned as an SDE at Atlassian in 2024, navigating their OLT, technical, and HR interview rounds with specific questions on LCS, MST, CS fundamentals, and behavioral scenarios.
Full Experience
Introduction about me : Hello all ! This is Pratyush Raj .I am currently a summer intern at Atlassian.I am a final year student at IIT Dhanbad popularly known as ISM Dhanbad . I am pursuing integrated master of technology in Mathematics and Computing . I am a machine learning enthusiast and have keen interests in artifical intelligence and NLP. That was not the part I guess you have come here to read about .. so let’s jump into the process …
HIRING FLOW : STEP1 : ORIENTATION SESSION : It was a very wonderful session conducted by the campus hiring team and team emphasising on the new wing Atlassian AI that caught my attention all throughout !
STEP2: OLT (online test) : It was a coding test . It generally consists of 2 to 3 questions medium to tough (around 1600 rating codeforces) . The questions covered were dp ,graphs and bit masking in my case .
STEP3:Tech Interview: It was a 60 min long interview . The interviewer intially gave me a question in a tricy way . There were 2 questions . In the first question the theme was to find the length of longest common subsequence and then print it . The second question was on minimum spanning tree ( the topic which is very very important but many people leave it ) . He didnt ask me directly , so yes you need to think and identify which algorithm or method should be used for the problem . I Started with the brute force and then explained him the optimal solutions . After the coding questions a couple of oops / os questions he asked me about virtual memory ,dynamic binding , constructors and destructors . They were answerable if you know the basics .
STEP4: HR interview : The interviewer was a very chill person , he made by comfortable first by asking about hobbies and stuffs and then the interview started . He asked general questions like how would you tackle a situtaiton where a teammate is not able to perform well , tell me one change you have brought to society and stuffs like that . I answered them honestly and he was happy with me
Interview Questions (7)
In the first question the theme was to find the length of longest common subsequence and then print it .
The second question was on minimum spanning tree ( the topic which is very very important but many people leave it ) . He didnt ask me directly , so yes you need to think and identify which algorithm or method should be used for the problem .
He asked me about virtual memory
He asked me about dynamic binding
He asked me about constructors and destructors
how would you tackle a situtaiton where a teammate is not able to perform well
tell me one change you have brought to society
Preparation Tips
Tips for anyone appearing for internship/placement process:
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Do go through striver 450 sheet . It is must for interview and building a strong base . Important topics: dp ,graphs ,arrays ,bitmasking ,recursion ,binary search and number theory
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Give contests regularly on codeforces,codechef,atcoder and leetcode .(it really helps it olt to think exact logic in less time ) . Don’t get demotivated if you could not solve during contest . Do do do upsolve….(maintain a notebook if u feel u can recycle the concept)
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Make a couple of good projects . It can be anything based on webd,appd or ml . Research about them completely before going to interview . Ask your college seniors to guide in this part .
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Make a good resume and check its ATS score . Make sure its above 50 so that it gets shortlisted.
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Maintain a good cgpa/cpi in college . You ll see many companies putting a bar of around 7 cgpa in resume shortlisting .
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Research about the company, the type of question it asks or it has asked . Its very important for olts as well as HR interview .Sometimes the company ask about its culture and all . Microsoft repeated the questions for IIT KGP and us so yes it becomes a plus point .
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Have a good grasp on cs fundamentals mainly oops ,os ,dbms and cn . I will suggest youtube channel of sanchit jain for all of them . Crisp and perfect . Make short notes if u need .
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Specific for Atlassian interview a lot of seniors had told to practise design questions ( like design a lru cache ,lfu cache like that ) so yes questions like these are important .DO DO STUDY ABOUT ATLASSIAN VALUES AND CULTURES .
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Make sure you are proficient in English , your communications gives the first impression . Prepare some HR questions . Use Interviewbit for interviews. It really helps .
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Don’t get disheartened any time if u think everyone is going ahead . I felt the same .Believe me . Just work on the process ,worry about the controllables and eventually you will see the results . If u feel ,you are left behind think what i can do as from now , 0+ is always greater than 0 and every effort counts .
All the best .Believe in yourself .U can , U will !