Apex rat race - Principal Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
Dec 18, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pays well, remote, nothing else

Cons

My guess for some reason Mike thought that he can make it better without Scott. Scott waved good bye, Mike went cargo culting Meta to the brim, and the company started to lose its soul. After a few performance layoffs cycles it’s just a living dead. Everyone I speak with work for money only, pushing meaningless OKRs. I’ll stop here, everything is already said in every review. Today mid year APEX was declared gone. They will screw you this way or the other. They claimed they listened- it’s all lies.

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Cons

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3.0
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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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