Hostile culture, terrible management, PIP factory - Senior Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
Dec 10, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- remote, decent comp & benefits

Cons

- APEX. everything revolves around the bi-annual stack ranking performance reviews. If you want to 'succeed' at Atlassian you're gonna spend all of your time chasing ridiculous personal metrics for the performance review (e.g. PR count) instead of trying to solve real problems - The culture has become actively hostile as a result of APEX. every man for himself - Rampant micromanagement, getting pulled into 1:1s with manager to explain exactly why some task took a day or 2 longer than estimated - Layoffs every few months

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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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