Poor Leadership : The Toll on Engineers - Senior Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Sep 17, 2025
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Pros

Apart from compensation and the option to work from home, there’s nothing worthwhile here

Cons

Poor leadership without vision. They are swimming in the ocean without any goal. No innovation , Toxic work culture. Performance process called APEX. which is applied on engineers only not on leadership. Engineers are targetted not on performance but how much Leadership is directionless and lacks vision, they’re simply drifting without purpose. There’s zero innovation, and the work culture is deeply toxic. The so-called performance process (APEX) is enforced only on engineers, while leadership remains completely exempt. Engineers aren’t evaluated on actual performance, but on how much they please their manager or skip level. Most managers are mere puppets, and skip-level leaders spend their time engaging in shameless flattery instead of real leadership. Specifically, the Indian senior leadership is utterly incompetent , they add no value and have no clue what they’re doing.

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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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