Atlassian is cutting 1,600 jobs and replacing its CTO
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Atlassian CEO previously claimed the company would hire more engineers, but in March 2026, the company announced 1,600 job cuts and a CTO replacement, contradicting earlier statements.
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In October 2025, Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes appeared on the 20VC podcast and said something that now reads rather differently. Technology creation, he argued, is ‘not output-bound.’ Atlassian would employ more engineers in five years, not fewer. They would just be more efficient. On 11 March 2026, Mike Cannon-Brookes sent a memo to […]
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