Atlassian Principal Technical Program Manager reviews

2.5

24% would recommend to a friend

(65 total reviews)
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Mike Cannon-Brookes

14% approve of CEO

8% positive business outlook

Principal Technical Program Manager employees have rated Atlassian with 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 65 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Technical Program Manager professionals have an average working experience there. Atlassian is rated 32% below average by Principal Technical Program Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Oct 10, 2025
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Pros

Maybe the total compensation. Nothing else.

Cons

Totally broken set of company values. They are basically in reverse. There is no team work at all. New performance system killed it completely. Everyone works for themselves and goals are not linked to hşgher level goals. Everyone shows themselves successful by manipulating goals or results. Because everyone wants to seem successful, no one speaks up or everybody hides/doesn’t care about others’ metrics. Incredibly subjective performance calibrations. If you’re getting well with your senior peers you’re safe. Not possible to succeed otherwise. The company has zero incentive to build and grow people. You’ll die trying to find things to improve yourself or proper scope. Mentoring is discouraged and is only a tool for showing fake impact. An internal mentoring program had 10 to 7 mentor to mentee ratio. It is impossible to change any process or decision. The company will simply pay you to not do your job and shut up. Everything is managed top down and your only responsibility is disagree but commit. No career opportunity at all. You’ll not learn anything here and even forget what you know. No one cares about the product or the users. Everything is about internal politics and making sure your project stays alive. Upper management is fully opaque on why some decisions are taken and also not accountable. New performance system was never scrutinized against proper metrics. Actually nothing is even though they say everything should be measurable. Atlasaian become the worst place to work in the last few years from what it was when I first joined. Everything changes constantly to make some people’s goals green without any tracability. Inner software development loop is very very bad and all processes are incredibly inefficient, yet they are counting PRs and reviews. Wannabe FAANG company.

1.0
Sep 17, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

High pay, work from home.

Cons

Toxic self-serving culture; Constant changing of direction and goals; Performance-Driven-Development: the only way to survive is to market yourself successfully, regardless of actual outcomes, and make sure your marketing is better than your peers. Engineering outcomes are not important.

3.0
Sep 17, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- salary - access to new tools, AI - known brand

Cons

- 8% layoffs every year - unclear performance assessment rules - high pressure

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