I've been working in Atlassian for about 3 years, and I know the company inside out. Here is what you should know:

You join as P3, P4, P5 or P6 engineer. P7 hire is quite rare. From my years of employment in the organization I haven't seen anyone hired for P2 and below roles. P3 is considered as junior engineer. But let's take a quick look into these roles:

One of my friends in Atlassian is P7. I once asked him - "How did you get P7 promotion?". "I didn't get any", - he replied, - "I just joined early enough before we had any PASCAL".

What is PASCAL you ask? Well, you gonna find out. Pretty much it's the levels we've discussed above and responsibilities for each level.

As an employee in United States you're getting:

Well, there is information about RSUs and salary on websites like levels.fyi, but the reality is that Atlassian doesn't pay too much. My manager said (exact quote):

But I asked "How do we attract engineers then?" The answer was "by great culture in the company and work life balance".

Just FYI, this exact manager decided to switch from M3 (manager) to P6 position at some point of time. P6 is a Staff Engineer who has (well, should have) quite strong technical background. Funny fact is that I once asked him while we were talking about GUID collisions we had:

The answer was:

Well, it's 16 bytes. So the number of combinations is 2^(8 * 16) with some caveats.

I think it kinda gives you perspective on what kind of the salary you can expect in the organization and why. You should have an idea of the average technical skill level in the organization for a P6 engineer.

Atlassian promotes and emphasizes its caring culture. They introduce small perks like "recharge day" every once in a while, and do other stuff so support their employees, like gym reimbursements (up to $500/year), workspace reimbursement. I even got used chair from the San Francisco office and one broken monitor. I have to admit it worked for one day, and died the next day I switched it on.

Pre-COVID you would find free snacks, drinks, including beer, kombucha and even tap beer. Snacks were like everywhere else, definitely not fancy or something. A pack of small carrots, chips, cold boiled eggs wrapped in plastic. Some veggies and fruits in the morning. You probably won't find anything if you come late enough.

I haven't heard about meal reimbursements for employees who work from home. I have to mention that the company is quite greedy when it comes to money and paying you.

For example, I had no salary bumps in almost 3 years. The inflation rate has eaten a big chunk of my salary over the time, so there were no adjustments to that. Somebody mentioned inflation rate, especially in HCOL areas in All Hands meeting. Atlassian said - "we're going to have performance reviews and your manager will get back to those of you who are eligible [for salary increase]". So salary inflation adjustments are up to your manager's decision.

I made this website to tell the world about my experience working in Atlassian. This company terminated my employment because my spouse had cancer. You can find my story on the main page.