Meat grinder - Senior Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Mar 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great salary, work from home

Cons

High pressure environment, stack ranking makes it impossible to make meaningful work connections as everyone is competing, you need to track your work daily and essentially justify why you should remain employed every 6 months during their performance review cycle. Even doing everything right, they'll just make you redundant regardless. Stock in the toilet and bizarre business decisions. Why did we just lay off 1600 people and yet we bought a web browser no one uses and paid for an F1 sponsorship.

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5.0
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3.0
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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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