Case Study: Atlassian achieves stronger engineering leadership diversity with HackerRank

Atlassian’s CIO On Getting More Women into Engineering Leadership

Atlassian, the team collaboration and productivity software company, highlighted a challenge in getting more women into engineering leadership roles. In its CIO’s guest post, the company pointed to evidence from HackerRank research showing women are more likely to remain in junior engineering positions and face barriers such as gender bias in STEM, front-end role stereotypes, and a confidence gap.

Atlassian uses HackerRank assessments for coding interviews, and the article says HackerRank’s findings helped reinforce that women have the skills employers need but need more encouragement and opportunity to advance. The result is a call to action for stronger leadership pathways and more inclusive hiring and development practices, with measurable context from HackerRank’s research showing women in engineering are 3.5x more likely than men to be in junior roles.

Atlassian

Archana Rao

Chief Information Officer