Terrible Middle Management - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
28 July 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Growing company -Friendly and smart people -Unique GTM strategy (no sales) -Lots of good benefits

Cons

-Everyone there is 25 and has a warped reality and are very clicky. They were between 7 and 10 years old in '97 when the dot.com boom started and busted in 2000. They have no idea how good it is now and how lucky they are. It won't last forever. -No sense of time to market. Engineering always misses deadlines. -'Sales' and 'Enterprise' are dirty words. Public company thinks they are still a start-up and can grow 40%YoY without sales and enterprise deals. Good luck! -Lots of redundant roles, everyone is trying to build their mini kingdom -Middle management needs serious training on people management skills and their responsibilities -People (mainly middle management) openly say bad things about their own employees and other individual contributors. Open Company, No BS. How about have respect and not talk behind people's back. -PowerPoint is not used. They use Apple Keynote.

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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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