Solid strong company, but not team - Principal Data Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

4.0
Jan 28, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great and professional people. I met many really smart individuals there, and it was an honor to work alongside them. Very flexible workplace approach - fully remote or hybrid if you want. Great offices. Very strong compensation package Great technical challenges and scale.

Cons

Bad work/life balance: a lot of priorities and lack of long-term planning (last 3 months we worked with data migration in fire, because it wasn't added to the initial migration process from on-prem) Absolutely not a team: - If the candidate complains to the interviewer, it becomes hell. I supervised an interview. And candidate absolutely with no reason complained about it. So it looked more like a panic in the company, and I had to prove that the interviewer was good. It's a luck that I supervised it. Otherwise cannot imagine a sanction for the interviewer. One. ONE candidate complain (without a real reason) -> butt pain. - I heard about a case when people lost their jobs for doing some mistakes with customers. Mistakes as experience for growth? Not about Atlassian - I heard about silent layoffs with bad performance reasons. Right before bi-annual reviews (not after).

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Apr 30, 2023
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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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