World class engineering, broken leadership - Senior Engineering Manager Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
9 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Engineering practices and rigour established over the years is first class. Most developers want to do the right thing for the company. Developers are talented, humble and great to collaborate with. Equity compensation is (was) a significant differentiator (when the share price was good)

Cons

Since 2022, Atlassian seems to have been throwing out the baby with the bathwater. While trying to speed up execution and bring in velocity by bringing in people from companies like Meta, they have created a confused, mercenary leadership structure that is only concerned with their yearly bonus and not with the longevity of the company.

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5.0
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Pros

Great pay for an SDR role and very comfortable benefits great culture and people despite whatever happens in the company

Cons

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3.0
30 Apr 2023
Recommend
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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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