No longer good - Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
13 Sept 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay, work-life balance and decent benefits

Cons

New performance assessment system is complete trash. Your main focus for each quarter is how you can make your performance review look good. They put a very large emphasis on metrics like PR count and encourage you to be in the 75th percentile. Only issue is this data is public, and the number is always shifting so you will always have to do more in other to be above others trying to do the exact same thing. You get chopped if you don't. I've seen this turn people against each other to boost their own numbers.

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Cons

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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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