Remote first and competitive salary - Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

4.0
Jul 6, 2026
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Pros

Competitive salary Remote work B2B highly available SaaS company (so bar for quality of work is low)

Cons

SInce Rajiv CTO leadership, company has major shifts in way working, took first line managers, so managers don’t have enough time to work on all reports, and reports has to prepare their own documents to provide for appraisal and promotions, themselves. Highly competitive culture, have to play the game to gain good score in all irrational metrics and also, Competition within team is now implicit due to new review policies. They have been consistently increasing load on engineering and while reducing head count, and using resources from reduction to form new internal teams to do new work. My team’s head count was reduced from 25 to 7 during my time, and work load had doubled.

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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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