Generally great company, but failing their values and teammates - Design Lead Atlassian Employee Review

4.0
2 Apr 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great benefits, extremely talented people (overall), a lot of mutual understanding and camaraderie. Everyone treats each other like humans. Micromanagers are not common.

Cons

Over the years, especially this year, the company seems to be bending or breaking their commitment to their company values. "Open company, no bs" is starting to have more holes in it, especially with the unexpected layoffs in early march. Innovation (ShipIt days) don't have as much weight in the business as before, and large waves of hiring have been bringing on lower quality hires with poor values and low talent. Also over time, DEI tends to keep hiring more white leadership as POC leadership has left, not upholding diversity in leadership as promised.

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5.0
8 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

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

Cons

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3.0
30 Apr 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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