From the best work life balance to the worst in 4 years - Senior Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
20 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay, Thats all. All the other good things about the company are already dead now.

Cons

I am really sad while writing this review since I was one of the biggest promoters of Atlassian a few years ago. I used to love this company. Work life balance has become 0, It used to be great 4 years ago. Office politics has increased from almost 0 to a 100. Does not matter how impactful your work is, unless you do boot licking there is no point. I saw within my own team people getting EE despite of not delivering any major project in the entire half and people who delivered a major project within timeline and with 0 HOTs and escalation for ME or MM. The motivation to work has come down to 0. The senseless layoffs of 1600 workforce which costed company 250 million USD and 0 impact on stock price was the last nail in the coffin. Many of the highly motivated and high performing tenured people were laid off and the remaining ones will leave soon.

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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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