Used to be a great place to work, now on a steep decline - Principal Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
Sep 2, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Salary is pretty good, comparable to most big tech (but there is a reason for that, see Cons #1). 2. Project can be interesting based on what team you land up in. 3. 100% Remote (for now).

Cons

1. Hunger games with PIP factory every 6 months APEX reviews. 2. Engineering culture is a mess with moral is super low. 3. Developers don't want to help peers as it's in free for all. 4. Super long hours with cross-geo collab with India and Australia. 5. P60 is the worst level, as you are expected to pull out a rabbit out of your...you know, every quarter

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

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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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