Good pay but difficult management and constant context switching - Full Stack Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
25 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- good pay & benefits

Cons

- I had a spineless manager who was terrified of senior management - constant shifting priorities, it was impossible to get anything done productively - you have 4 pillars you need to meet for APEX (the performance management process), projects, eng excellence, direction and org impact. So you have at least 4 things on your plate that you need to constantly be working on. And then with weekly production incidents (known as HOTs) you were being pulled in every direction. I found context switching was wasting so much of my time and energy. And then my manager told me I was expected to work on multiple projects at a time which stretched me even thinner

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5.0
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Cons

- slow progression - limited internal transfer

3.0
30 Apr 2023
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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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