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From being the best company to worst

Principal Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Atlassian for 6 years
October 10, 2025
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
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.

Advice to Management

Trust in your workforce. Bring back team work.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
3.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
1.0
Career Opportunities
1.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
1.0

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