PIP Factory, Stay Away - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Feb 21, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Perks like free lunch, team gatherings - Some of the brightest & sharpest people - Remote work, no need to visit the office unless required - Reasonably good pay & stock options

Cons

- Meta & Microsoft hires brought hire / fire culture to Atlassian - PIP quotas to be filled every 6 months. People will be PIP-ed without solid reason. - Once PIP-ed, the only option is to move out. Not seen or heard someone "passing" the PIP. - If you're in the bad books of the management, you'll be out in no time. - Stack ranking is real. This pits colleagues against one another, thereby sinking team morale. - A consequence of stack ranking - a colleague will "offer help" only if it looks good on their performance reviews. There were instances were "offering help" was recorded as "stepping in when the other person was struggling". - So, if someone is nice or trying to be helpful, be suspicious of their intentions. They might project it as if they've stepped in to do your work & they're more likely to paint a picture as if you're someone struggling to complete your task.

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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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