Toxic management overshadows decent pay and tech work - Senior Software Engineer Atlan Employee Review

Leadership is inspiring and sets a high standard that pushes everyone on the team to grow, and they show it by continuously investing in their people. The culture rewards those who push themselves, and you can feel that everyone around you genuinely cares about the mission. Amazing place to develop quickly and learn in an AI-native environment.

The pace means you have to advocate for yourself and continuously raise the bar.

-Pay: Atlan seems to recognize how much they ask of employees and compensate accordingly, paying top of the US market salaries regardless of city/state. -People: The individuals here are genuinely wonderful, caring, low-ego humans all around who are excellent at what they do. Collaboration at Atlan is a pleasure for that reason. -Agency: Atlan is all-in on AI and you can experiment with any tool or new workflow as long as it involves expanding AI use. You'll find very few barriers to acting on (AI-native) ideas here.

-Leadership: a very flat org where the co-founders micromanage everything, change their mind constantly (often right before deadlines), and treat the entire company like a service org for themselves. Success in GTM is defined as "what leadership likes". -Disorganization: for a company that sells governance there is shockingly little documentation or process, even for basic workflows (approvals, what tools to use for drafts, brand guidelines, etc) - the influx of AI tools is making this worse. If you don't already know where something lives and who to talk to about it, you'll waste days re-doing past work. -The chase for "cutting-edge": every time there's something new--a trending term, product capability, new customer--they seemingly abandon everything in progress up until that point and drop it in favor of the new thing. On the marketing front, this is both a poor strategy and exhausting to keep up. -Timezones: half of the team sits in India which means both early mornings and late nights to collaborate.