A far cry from its former self - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Dec 11, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay was good, worked with lots of talented people, some pretty solid benefits too though those are being scaled back

Cons

Everything mentioned in many other reviews: stack ranking, heavy pip culture, incredible amounts of individualism due to APEX, incompetent leadership with clueless company strategy other than ✨✨developer JOY✨✨ I know the tech industry as a whole has degraded a lot over the past few years, but it's so sad to see Atlassian make the biggest swing from one of the best companies to work for to one of the absolute worst of all of big tech. Even Amazon and Meta have significantly better ratings than Atlassian these days which speaks volumes.

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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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