Used to be a Great Place To Work, but now it's definitely not - Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Jul 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- decent Total Compensation (although not worthy the grind) - WFH

Cons

- Toxic stack ranking - Due to the performance rating system, engineers are forced to be loud and recognizable, rather than cooperative and effective - More focus is put on huge blog posts and fighting for the most impactful projects rather than focusing on real problems - Layoffs that also affected long-tenured, efficient senior engineers

Explore other reviews about Atlassian

5.0
Jul 19, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay, team trajectory, clear structure

Cons

Product vision, design, management communication

3.0
Apr 30, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

386
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All