A big swing in the wrong direction - Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
29 May 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It pays like a big tech company! And there are still remnants of what Atlassian once was.

Cons

The Atlassian of today is not what it once was. Mike Cannon-Brookes seems to have lost part of his soul with his divorce. Executive leadership is mostly folks that couldn't cut it at Facebook and Microsoft, and brought their not so great leadership skills to Atlassian. We've copied Meta's performance review system, Apex. We live in constant fear of stack ranking. We're trying to be like big tech, and we're really not good at it, which is creating inhumane conditions.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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