Status: B.Tech (Tier-3)
Position: SDE-2 in FAANG+
Experience: 4 years

APPLICATION

Applied on careers portal for P40 role without any referral. Recruiter reached out in few days to discuss preliminary details like compensation expectation, reason to switch, etc.

ROUND-1 Karat

This was a screening round by 3rd party which involved 5 rapid fire system design questions and 2 easy-medium DSA questions.

Feedback: Cleared

ROUND-2 DSA

Write following methods - increasePopularity(content id), decreasePopularity(content id), getMostPopular(). Follow-ups included increasing/decreasing popularity by 'x' not by 1 and tie-breaker strategies.

Feedback: High Confidence, P40

ROUND-3 Code Design

Write following methods - addAgentRating(agent id), getSortedAgentRatingsList(). Follow-ups included adding agent rating for a given month, getting sorted agent list for a month, tie-breaker strategies, and concurrency.

Feedback: High Confidence, P40

ROUND-4 System Design

Design popular K feeds in confluence. Follow-ups included popularity score calculation strategies, support for querying in windows and updating dashboards of users in real-time.

Feedback: High Confidence, P50

ROUND-5 Management

Situation based questions like when you owned a project end-to-end, when you improved efficiency, when project scope increased, when you pushed back someone, etc.

Feedback: High Confidence, P40

ROUND-6 Values

Situation based questions like when you mentored someone, conflict with someone, shipped any bug to customer, project deprioritized, etc.

Feedback: No Hire

Conclusion

Recruiter reached out after Round-4 that openings are already filled but you can still give remaining two rounds and we will consider your application in 2-3 weeks when new positions come.

After all the rounds finished, recruiter provided feedback. I told the recruiter that my values round went even better than management round; their interviewer had 10 years of experience, still sitting on P40 role and joined Atlassian less than a year ago which is a big question on the credibility of their feedback. The feedback isn't even consistent with rest of the rounds. The interviewer asked me to answer either question A or question B and in the feedback I could see the negative points were that question B's response were missing and question A's response was good - I was given an OR condition and evaulation was for AND.

This can very well be a tactic to reject applications since positions were already filled.