Supportive team and pay overshadowed by poor leadership direction - Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
29 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pay, RSUs, bonus. Great team and colleagues to work with and engaging/progressive attitude.

Cons

Upper management constantly changes their mind with agile mindset. No engagement from leadership direction. Product has little direction and no care to customers. Metrics on all work aspects and constant fear of underperformance. Little growth or guidance on personal and professional skills. All performance determined by metrics and numbers. Half yearly performance reviews. All values and culture are just for show and none are lived through their employees. Upper management constantly lies to staff, constantly told there will be no layoffs and layoffs happened within weeks of being told that multiple times from multiple managers and C suite.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

- slow progression - limited internal transfer

3.0
30 Apr 2023
Recommend
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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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