Comp is great but suffers from cultural incongruity - Senior Technical Program Manager Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
Sep 26, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Compensation(Base pay and RSU) * Fully covered health insurance * 401k Match * Lots of great people at the Individual Contributor level

Cons

Just a warning that the advertised culture and values are not lived and its essential that the theater of using the language and justifying actions revolves around the values so you can assimilate. * There is a substantial amount of toxic positivity. * The road to the ambiguous goal of being a "World Class Engineering Organization" has lead to miss alignment in company culture and the weaponization of the performance management process. * Performance management process as many have mentioned is toxic. Pro-tip: Write blogs throughout the year. Most do this to help manufacture evidence. * There are constant re-orgs. Mainly because the senior leaders aren't accountable for making poor strategic decision. I went through 5 re-orgs in 3 years. * Professional development is something the company does not fund or support. * The company in general is on a big push to control G&A which means that you will continue to see layoffs, reduction or erosion of benefits, and performance management manipulated to control the bonus multipliers.

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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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