Toxic Employer - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Apr 2, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay and remote first

Cons

Where to begin? The culture used to be great: collaborative, fun, interesting work. In the last 2-3 years it changed drastically. Good people started leaving and the leftovers started bringing in their friends. These external hires were favored over internal promotions. Insecure new managers who know they would never make it as an IC, manage long-tenured experts. Twice a year performance reviews pit colleagues against each other, by design. The product itself is now suffering as well; great engineers have left and took their knowledge to better companies.

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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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