Directionless Company. Clueless "leaders" - Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Nov 26, 2025
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Pros

Remote work would have been a pro but they don't know how to operate across timezones

Cons

...They don't even know how to do full remote properly. Execution team for projects is often thrown together from different parts of company and world with little care of working relationship and timezone constraints. Most teams have no visibility into what they're going to do next half. APEX is a rat race by design that fuels toxic politics and ever increasing expectations. Even if you align with your manager on goals, write them down and achieve every one of them there is still a chance you will get a bad rating due to stack ranking. Only the favorites of heads of engineering get good rating no matter how little they achieve. It's all about kissing the behinds of VPs because in many orgs there is no impactful work and they've over hired.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

-Good TC package -Great team to work with with good leadership direction -Growth/Expansion Mindset

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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