It was once a great place to work - Senior Frontend Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
Aug 9, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Competitive pay, remote work, opportunity to change teams and work in different products. Lots of smart people to learn from.

Cons

Going through a heavy metafication. Stack ranking. They keep track of your pull requests count, number of interviews, number of participation in HOTs and pos incident reviews. All of that counts when they do the performance review. Big products move slow, teams working on same area of the product are often misaligned on changes. One teams undo what the other planned, or work is conflicting. A lot of the focus now is to achieve the goals to get a good performance review, moving the focus from delivering a good product to the customers to producing proof that you are useful to the big corp.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Apr 30, 2023
Recommend
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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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