Extremely toxic - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
20 Aug 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Used to be a great company. They still offer remote work and claim it will never go away. Benefits are average to good.

Cons

Since Scott left things started to go downhill. Now it's more like Meta than anywhere else. Their performance management system is called Apex. It will become the only thing you care about. Expect to be stack ranked to your peers. Performance is based on how well you make your work seen by executives, not actual quality. The company values are now a husk of what they used to be. If interviewing for a role at Atlassian, be sure to ask your recruiter about it.

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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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