Athenahealth Software Engineer Interview Guide

I went through four rounds total: an online assessment, two technical interviews, and a managerial round. The process itself was a bit slow because of a few reschedules, but the interviewers were generally friendly. The online assessment was on HackerRank and had one SQL question, two Spring Boot questions, and one multiple-choice question. That set the tone pretty well, because the rest of the process kept circling back to Java, Spring, SQL, and basic problem solving rather than anything overly specialized.

In the first technical round, they spent a good amount of time on my previous projects and then gave me a coding problem about finding the most loyal customers from two different files, specifically people who had visited more than one unique page. The second technical round was more of a system design discussion, where I had to design an appointment booking system. That round felt more open-ended and was less about writing code than about how I would structure the service and think through the flow. I also got a few basic Java questions along the way, including core OOP concepts, exceptions, collections, and threads, plus some SQL and Spring Boot basics.

The managerial round was the weirdest part. I answered the scenario-based questions and the basic Java follow-ups, and I even got told I did well, but I still ended up rejected afterward. I later saw the status change in Workday to “No longer in consideration for this position,” and there was no separate rejection email. My main takeaway is to be ready for straightforward DSA, core Java, SQL, and Spring Boot questions, plus one system design round and a lot of project discussion. If you’re preparing, I’d focus on array/string problems, hash maps, and being able to explain your past work clearly.