Good product gene, awesome people, technical debt - Senior Developer Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
15 Apr 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You can work on products people love to use. You can notice how company tries to change itself from a installed software company to SaaS. You will be able to work closely with product managers and together shape the product. Despite its size company is still rather open so by observing internal communication tools you can get the feel of what's going on and participate in different activities.

Cons

Depending on a team you will join you can face a crappy and abandoned technology that no one else uses. If you wish to keep up with cool technologies it might not be a good place for you. You will face a wall when it comes to making those products technically better - sacred APIs that cannot be changed, scary plugin system or hacked maven for builds. I would advise to choose teams that work on recently created products. Avoid more mature ones. Company grows a lot and plans to do so in the upcoming years, so despite their great values atmosphere starts to feel like in any other "corporation" - multi level managerial structure, bad people management.

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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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