Good pay, rough culture - Senior Data Scientist Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
Sep 22, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Very good salary, nice offices with free lunch, high performing coworkers, some nice benefits

Cons

Brutal performance culture. Implicit expectation of working well over normal hours, because that's the only way to meet expectations. Very little space is given for needing to upskill or get your head around something new. Everyone is constantly thinking about the next 6 monthly apex cycle and whether they're going to score below 'Meeting expectations' which seems to shift upwards every cycle. All this and the stock price hasn't moved in years. I predict the culture continuing to degenerate over time.

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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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