A developer's paradise - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
3 Mar 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Definitely a company that prides itself on a strong engineering culture. Engineers rule at Atlassian and they do some excellent work. Projects are generally well communicated through internal systems and there is a really good office environment and culture.

Cons

Management is bloated and objectives are unclear and often changing. As the company grows, it needs to learn how to better empower employees to make decisions on their own without having to funnel everything to upper management. Advancement opportunities are limited/non-existent for those not in technical divisions. The company also has a general policy of hiring from outside instead of promoting from within, leading to career development stagnation.

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Pros

Amazing people, I loved the core values, competitive salary, great benefits

Cons

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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