Underwhelming experience - childcare center for 'grown up' boys - Finance Atlassian Employee Review

The best way to describe this place is organised chaos. I wholeheartedly agree with the comments around ‘Management’. Why this company has the layers of management it does is beyond me. “Heads of Departments” are not interested in fostering the careers of people they hire. So unless you’re ready to pilot a plane on the first day of flight school, move along to your next job and save yourself the anguish. The offices while central are overcrowded. The company is littered with cliques…mainly older boys whole like to play Dungeons & Dragons and are persuaded by free beer & pizza to properly appreciate the lack of actual career development opportunities taking place. The company is on a fast track of growth and everything centers on when the company will list in the UK and finally crystallize the large reward that the co-founders are due (and have probably earned). Every other ‘manager’ (I use this word loosely) closely monitors their employee share growth and are too engrossed in their future reward to even notice the new employees they have hired. This applies to finance/tax/HR and payroll too and is not limited to the operations side. Really good people are constantly leaving…the place is a revolving door or new starters leaving because of a lack of direction and older employees taking the winnings of their employee shares and starting a ‘new life’ at some place more organised. Don’t join this company if you want a ‘career’…it’s an illusion. When you peel back the thin veneer that is the free cheap thrills that are thrown your way to distract you from improving your career attributes, you realize you have pretty much landed in a child care center for little boys that failed to grow up. All manager level employees (I.e. people who have the responsibility of other employee careers in their hands) should be made redundant as their purpose is really to serve themselves. HR should not be allowed to call themselves ‘Human’ because they are clearly devoid of any attributes to draw that long conclusion. At best it's a talent Acquisition department, which can find talent but has no idea on how to properly hang onto that talent once they are in the door. At the end of the day this is a career limiting environment which is spruced up by constantly having cheap thrills thrown at you. As they say, a pig with lipstick is still a pig and it doesn't matter how much freebies are thrown in your direction, its a career dead end. All while the founding members plan their retirement funds (via public listing) and ego overweight lazy ‘Heads of Departments’ stare at the rapid rate of growth in their stock options neglecting the careers of those they hired to do their heavy lifting. Observing the 'Head's of Departments' trying to 'manage' their new hires is akin to watching a spider crawl out of a toilet.