Culture has gone sour - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
14 Jan 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation is competitive; if you have a good manager then life can be good; leftover good culture vibes from the early days still resonating

Cons

Overall culture is now mini-Microsoft, politics and backstabbing galore. Cut throat review process being used not only to get rid of under performers, but also as a political tool to get rid of high performing people managers don't like or feel threatened by. If you get a toxic manager there is no protection against mistreatment or fabricated reviews. Company management doesn't seem to have a good handle on how to evolve, has adopted a take it or leave it approach to employees.

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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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