Chaos factory - Senior Data Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Aug 14, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are some smart and kind people there.

Cons

Incredibly high turnover. A majority of my team had less than 6 months experience. You'd think they'd pair new people with experienced people but no, they'll put all the newbs together. Your manager will ask you to do something then during your review they will tell you that the thing they asked you to do lacked business impact during your performance review. My manager flat out told me that some teams will have more business impact and that the team I was on was maxed out at "meets expectations" no matter how good we were. My face time with my managers ranged between 2-6 hours a quarter. You will always have to work outside of normal business hours. I had scrum calls at 11:30 at night. I got no help from our platform team during my working hours which made my tickets stretch on or forced me to work until 2:00 am to be online at the same time as them. The managers I encountered looked at everything so simplistically with barely a surface level understanding. This is the level of thinking I encountered: "Person A made 5 tables, Person B made 7 tables. Therefore Person B > Person A". Zero understanding of variations in complexity of tasks. That same shallow thinking applies to PR (pull request) count. If Person A thoroughly tests and validates their code and deploys once vs Person B who releases a buggy piece of crap and has to deploy 10 patches, management will applaud Person B. If Person A writes their code DRY and Person B is a copy pasta wizard, management will applaud Person B.

Explore other reviews about Atlassian

5.0
Jun 8, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Good TC package -Great team to work with with good leadership direction -Growth/Expansion Mindset

Cons

-None that I think of

3.0
Apr 30, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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.

386
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All