Not an easy place to work, getting more cut throat - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
28 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good pay and benefits, remote working, very smart people

Cons

working 100% async with managers and teammates all over the world in a non-tech role is difficult. The team I was on was very afraid to try new things and rock the boat and my leader didn't understand or support what I wanted to do. The culture is very unclear as new execs and employees push "productivity and efficiency" but the employees act like it's still a start up with a chip on it's shoulder. The performance management system claims to not stack rank people on teams but that's exactly what it does, they just call it something different.

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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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