Avoid unless you truly need remote - Senior Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
23 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

On paper, compensation is good. Nice offices. Some interesting technical challenges. Some really smart coworkers.

Cons

Clueless management and "leadership". Squeezing employees and then PIPing them if they are not continually going above and beyond. Fear based culture. Performance review every 6 months that is extremely intensive and engineers are graded on PR count, confluence pages created, interviews given, etc. This leads to overwork and burnout, while software teams don't focus on solving actual problems due to poor management and "leaders" focusing on the wrong things. I am not opposed to performance management, but Atlassian has some severe flaws in their current approach that I believe will negatively impact the company's performance in the long term.

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5.0
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3.0
30 Apr 2023
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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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