Atlassian is Growing up - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
26 Sept 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It's a big company with a lot of growth still ahead of it. If you're on the right team, the place is great. Work life balance is excellent, unlike silicon valley, this is an Aussie work life balance company. The Founders and senior leadership are amazing, but that's where it stops.

Cons

There's a general departure from the original get things done culture and an emerging middle management political ware going on. Most middle management and promotions are granted on a political basis; lots of kiss assing and back scratching going on. It still works because the underlying organic growth is strong, but once growth slows, the cracks will sink this ship. Terrible place for long term career development. Managers change, orgs change, equity is stagnant, and the pay is far below market.

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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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