Atlassian reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(3,619 total reviews)
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Mike Cannon-Brookes

41% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

Atlassian has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 3,619 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Atlassian employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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4K reviews
4.0
Mar 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Genuinely the most intelligent people you will ever work with.

Cons

Team direction seems to be changing frequently, OKRs sometimes don’t get met due to changing goals.

1.0
Mar 16, 2026

A sinking ship

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Incredibly talented and inspiring individual contributors, good salaries.

Cons

Lack of leadership direction means that atlassian has been behind the ball for the past few years. There’s a serious lack of innovation within the company. We’re just seeing the reckoning of this with the recent layoffs. I’ve never worked at a company where employees were disappointed for not being laid off. All the most talented IC’s have left or are in the process of leaving. On an individual level, there is a dehumanising and psychologically damaging process of stack ranking engineers against their direct peers. Most of the bottom 10% are put on PIP / let go every year. There’s an underlying sense of fear for any interaction with colleagues. One cannot escape the irony of our stock price ticker…

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