Company and talent is good but culture is on toss - Principal Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
Jan 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Strong talent pool - Work from home culture - Competitive compensation

Cons

- Managers micromanages individuals In multiple one-on-one interactions, individuals have felt disrespected. At times, conversations become aggressive in tone. There have also been frequent and abrupt shifts in career direction, unnecessary escalations, and discussions about an individual’s performance shared with others without consent. Comparisons are made with other high-performing individuals, despite leadership guidance that such comparisons should not be done openly or informally. - Managers are here to create competition between team members not for building healthy team or team bonding - After receiving unfavorable ratings in team insight or pulse surveys, managers sometimes react defensively. Instead of reflecting on the feedback and addressing underlying issues, they approach individuals directly, questioning why specific feedback was given.

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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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