No leadership or management. Just adhoc execution. - Principal Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Oct 30, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

1. Good salary and benefits 2. The team that I joined had good opportunities only in short-term. (But cons nullify this)

Cons

1. No planning. Upper management (won't call it leadership as there was none) will just give some adhoc tasks with unrealistic adhoc deadlines without considering the effort involved because estimating effort requires some planning. As a result team always in fire-fighting mode with no work-life balance. 2. No ownership. Engineering manager will do micromanagement with no sense of ownership provided to the team members. Everyone from P40 -P60 doing P40 work. 3. No designing just execution. Regardless of the size of work, expectation is that you will design it in 2-3 days and then jump into execution as if you are aware of all the systems involved, irrespective of your experience in the team. As a result people doing half-baked designs upfront and then all kinds of dependencies and blockers get discovered during execution.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Apr 30, 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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