Great teams and remote work, but toxic culture prevails - Senior Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
13 May 2026
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Pros

Brilliant people in the teams you work with Remote work works close to perfect Perks

Cons

WLB almost not exist. Me and some other colleagues I know had to take a long sick leave to recover due to super stressed times (13-16 hours working hours a day!) Promotion program is VERY stressful. You act as the higher level for almost a year, with the same pay as you current role. Leadership is awful, outrages, lost you name it. Taking the company down since they embraced Meta culture rather than organically continue the original Atlassian culture. Toxic org culture. Engineers are awesome, but for the APEX assessments, individualism is the game.

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3.0
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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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