How did I get into Atlassian (52 Lacs CTC) from no previous internship
Aim for the stars. If you fail, you’ll land on the moon!
Hey guys!
This is not an overview of cracking the interview at Atlassian but rather how I built myself from scratch to get where I am today. This is my story. It is about how I have lived the so-called ‘foundation years’ of life. This blog will help you with what else you need apart from being thorough with coding and other technical skills.
I have added my story into 6 parts as it would be a very lengthy read.
- Where it all started
- Be You
- The most important question — “Tell me about yourself”
- What made me the person I am now
- Single-tasking person vs Multi-tasking person
- Interview Experience
Hope you like it. Although it doesn’t matter to me. Do not generalize anything through these blogs as they are only tested on one rat, that is me.
Part 1 — Where it all started
I was good at Mathematics from the very beginning. I guess being the son of an IITian had some benefits. But I was also a lazy person. I failed in Social Science from Class 6 to 9. In my school, the passing criterion was to get an overall percentage greater than 40%. I did what I liked and only worked on Math problems (and subjects that involved Math). I didn’t score a 10 CGPA in my 10th grade. That was the first time I experienced an existential crisis which later on proved to be very beneficial for me. I started preparing for IIT-JEE earlier than other people(not the toppers of course). I focused more on my coaching institute than school. I got good marks in the first coaching phase test(at least good for me I guess). But later on, the motivation started fading slowly. I was not scoring good marks at school and started compromising with my goals, myself. It was a new life, I was making friends of different types. I got to learn many things apart from PCM. Some things were good but some were not good. I got 73% in my 12th board exams and my JEE-Main rank was a lac and ninety-six thousand. It was the time when the marks you scored in boards also carried weightage in the JEE-Main ranking process. I didn’t study for Chemistry at all. I got an average rank in COMEDK entrance examination. My family had lost all faith in me. Everyone was ready to send me to some college in Karnataka(they didn’t want it but they were bound). I had two options -
Go to some not so recognized college in Karnataka
or
To drop for one year for preparation of entrance examinations.
I chose the second option. I was the only person in favor of the second option. Since I got 73% in boards, I also wanted to improve that and thus, I decided not to go to Kota. My family had lost all of their faith in me. I faced a lot of negativity that year. But as we know- “negative experiences bring the positives out of you”. After one year, my boards marks improved and I scored 86%. But the most important thing that improved was my JEE-Main rank. It was around 11 thousand. I got Computer Science and Engineering in BIT Mesra, Ranchi. I began this new journey of college, being absolutely unaware of how the upcoming three years will change me.
In the next blog, ‘Be You’, I will tell you about how I improved to become a better version of myself.
Stay tuned!
Edit: Link for the next blog is — https://medium.com/@sh1v4mr4j/how-did-i-get-into-atlassian-52-lacs-ctc-from-no-previous-internship-part-2-7372c6ff1697
