Great culture, strong engineering practices, and excellent work-life balance - Software Development Engineer 2 Atlassian Employee Review

4.0
Dec 30, 2025
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Pros

Atlassian has a genuinely people-first culture with strong emphasis on trust, autonomy, and collaboration. Engineering standards are high, teams are empowered to own problems end-to-end, and the work environment supports long-term, sustainable growth. Work-life balance is excellent, and the company values learning, inclusion, and thoughtful decision-making.

Cons

Visibility of individual or team contributions to senior leadership can sometimes be limited. Impactful work is often well recognized within immediate teams, but broader organizational visibility is not always straightforward unless the work is part of a high-profile initiative.

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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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