It was amazing, then it tanked. - Systems Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
21 Sept 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I worked at Atlassian for longer than any other employer in my career. At first, the environment was great, really encouraging me to do my best work in areas I was interested in. The engineering org was bottom up and any engineer could affect meaningful change. Not to mention, I was supported in changing roles several times and never got bored. As a parent, the paid for medical premiums were also awesome.

Cons

Once they brought in a new CTO who quickly replaced everyone reporting to him, things went downhill really fast. It was almost as if he was doing everything listed in a book of what not to do. All the efforts to measure productivity have amounted to micro management by middle managers. Individual engineers can no longer bring about meaningful change without playing some of the worst business politics I've ever seen in my career. Not to mention, the CEO(s) are so out of touch with the market. Every all hands with them turned into one collective eye roll from the majority of the employee base.

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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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