How Loom Interviews in 2026: Process, Sample Questions & What They Score

Loom's talent team opened contact with personalized video messages to handpicked candidates instead of standard cold email, and hiring managers recorded Loom videos posted on Twitter and LinkedIn to announce openings and describe role nuances. Timing varies by role and by whether you apply or are sourced.

Atlassian's design interview handbook describes it as an informal 30 minute chat about your background, skills and career goals. Atlassian's handbooks are the published source for Loom roles now that hiring runs through Atlassian.

The design handbook splits it into roughly 30 minutes of structured questions on core competencies, a 20 minute block holding a 10 minute case study presentation plus 10 minutes of Q and A, and 5 minutes for your own questions. The engineering handbook names a Manager Interview and describes it as a one on one on who you are today and who you want to be at Atlassian, without publishing a duration.

Loom's talent team asks prospective team members to complete an assignment and send it along with a five-minute loom, so the panel reads personality and working style alongside the work itself. Scope and deadline vary by role and level. The source post is dated July 2022 and predates the Atlassian acquisition.

Pre-acquisition practice; confirm with your recruiter that it still applies

Loom describes a superday as a big series of interviews with the panel, in which typically four to five loommates each interview the candidate individually. The talent blog places superday on-sites in San Francisco and says recruiters send pre-briefs to panelists on why the company is hiring and what to prep for. Length varies by track and level, and both sources predate the acquisition.

Pre-acquisition format; Atlassian's published loop below may replace it

Run in two parts, Data Structures and Code Design. Candidates choose their own programming language. Atlassian states that clean code matters but what is most important is how you think. No duration is published on the handbook. Example prompts sit in linked Google Drive and PDF documents covering Frontend, Backend, Fullstack and SRE at both Software Engineer and Principal Engineer levels.

The interviewer chooses from a set of structured questions designed to show how you would tackle the problems Atlassian solves. Assessment covers how you explore an issue, the clarifying questions you ask, and how you talk through constraints such as reliability and cost.

Portfolio Review runs 45 minutes with Q and A led by the hiring manager, and content design roles add a writing exercise. Two 30 minute Portfolio Follow-up Interviews run back to back or within 24 hours, the first on Product Thinking and the second on Craft Excellence. Atlassian asks for recent projects, preferably from the past 3 to 4 years, structured around problem, approach, time management, collaboration, success metrics and learnings.

Three named interviews: Lead and Inspire, Craft Mastery and Deliver Outcomes. Craft Mastery evaluates a customer-first mindset and T-shaped skills across the General Manager, Artist and Scientist dimensions. Deliver Outcomes asks whether the products you shipped drove value rather than how long they took. Durations are not published.

Applies to senior individual contributor and manager design roles only. Meetings with engineering and product counterparts. Timing is not stated in the handbook.

A conversational assessment run by someone from another department or outside your team, measuring alignment with Atlassian's five core values. The engineering handbook calls these usually fairly informal meetings whose goal is to understand your mindset and the way it guides your actions. The product handbook confirms a separate values-focused interview alongside values signals gathered throughout the loop.

The engineering handbook names a final Hiring Committee Review that looks at skills, strengths and behaviors objectively. For product roles, all four interviewers give individual feedback through specific assessment frameworks and then meet collectively to discuss recommendations. No turnaround time is published.

When Loom decided to extend an offer, the team packaged a document it called all of the Looms, holding a personalized video from every panelist. The hiring manager typically recorded around 3 minutes and panelists 30 to 50 seconds each. Pre-acquisition practice.

Pre-acquisition practice