The sad demise of Atlassian - Strategy Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
4 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Compensation - Remote work - Cool offices (albeit they sadly closed the Austin office)

Cons

- Incompetent management and poor corporate strategy - Hostile work environment (aggressive outbursts, mind games, your manager will take credit for your good work and throw you under the bus if anything goes wrong) - Actual culture is the opposite of the company's corporate values - Complete lack of communication and transparency (I knew more about our competitor's strategy than our own) - Broken performance review process (reviews can be brought down from a 5/5 to a 2/5 without explanation, without communication to your manager, and without recourse. HR merely says "we are happy with our performance review process"....maybe you shouldn't be and actually listen to employee feedback) - Lack of career progression opportunities (you won't be promoted and will receive nothing but excuses as to why) - Recent ex management consultant hires (no operating experience, no people management skills, a complete lack of transparency) - All the good people have left over the last 12 months The rapid reduction in Atlassian's Glassdoor rating from 4.3 to 3.1 in less than two years and the 60% fall in the share price over the last 12 months tells you all you need to know.

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5.0
14 Apr 2026
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Pros

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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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