Sinking ship - Sr Engineering Manager Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
29 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good AUS Pay (but that is loosing it's power with dropping stock. Breakfast, lunch, coffee, and snacks in the office save a fair bit of cash. Good equipment and endless AI Tokens to play with.

Cons

Pure fear. Everyone is saving themselves. No motivation for a mission. The ones that are happy are there to make money for themselves and don't care about the company/product/people. The rest are unhappy, sad or scared. Leadership are heartless and robotic. They lack connection with the employees, replay the "We care" speech, and relegate all nasty commentary or thoughts to the front line managers to deal with and coordinate with HR.

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5.0
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Cons

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3.0
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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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