Some pros, a lot of cons - People Team Member Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
1 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

In the right team, it can be an awesome place to work. Fast pace, challenging work, teammates are generally smart and good human beings. I'm not likely to find my type of work locally for anywhere near the same pay so very much appreciate that they’ve stuck with team anywhere.

Cons

Even if you join under a great manager, know that teams get reorganized nonstop and turnover is high so as soon as you land under a bad manager you’re screwed. 10% low ratings each performance cycle is viewed as a minimum in many orgs and if you're ever given performance feedback, know that the goal is to exit you as quickly as possible, not improve your performance. There's little room to be human and have a period where you're off your game (typically for valid life reasons) - you need to be doing the “best work of your life” at all times so good luck if you're a caregiver. Granted - this is the same across most of tech so it kind of is what it is - just flagging if you're reading another review more than 2 years old, it's a very different place now (as the rating drop reflects).

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5.0
14 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great pay for an SDR role and very comfortable benefits great culture and people despite whatever happens in the company

Cons

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3.0
30 Apr 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Amazing people, I loved the core values, competitive salary, great benefits

Cons

I want to start by saying I am not bitter or angry. Working for Atlassian was a whirlwind. I was there for 11 months before being laid off via email. In my time there, I went through 2 re-orgs and 3 managers. It just always felt like being on a hamster wheel… in a hurricane. Today I received an email 7 weeks after I was laid off that started with, “ Congrats on your first year at Atlassian—we know that's a huge accomplishment and are beyond thrilled to be celebrating with you!” It was a bummer to receive that, to say the least, but it included a link to leave this Glassdoor review to “ help provide invaluable insight to future candidates and help us to improve your experience as an employee continually.” so here I am. My advice is to do proper change management of your automated emails when you layoff 5% of your workforce so that emails like this aren’t sent to hard working former employees that you eliminated congratulating them on a milestone they never reached. I know this wasn’t intentional, but it hurt.

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