Generally good company, but avoid Bitbucket like the plague! - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
1 Sept 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

* Good benefits - usual for a tech company: subsidized lunches, decent health cover, snacks * Some great people at the worker level

Cons

This review is mostly about the Bitbucket section of Atlassian. * Like in most big companies, there are are good and bad divisions. One of the bad ones is Bitbucket. Stay far away! * The culture has become toxic. There are a lot of unhappy staff. Morale is very low. In the past it was a lot better, but now the division no longer cares about preserving the culture that made the company great, or following the "Atlassian values". * This division has a lot of issues with management. They couldn't hire any engineering team managers for a long time. A lot of the ones they ended up with are terrible. There's been nearly a 100% turn over in product management. And two senior division managers recently left. * Pay is below market rates. In the past, the work culture and people were meant to make up for that. * Microsoft recently bought Github, the major competitor to Bitbucket. Bitbucket is already a distant second in market share. Bitbucket won't be able to compete against Microsoft's money and resources. * San Francisco offices are in a sketchy area - multiple staff members have been robbed, assaulted, or harassed going to/from work or at lunch.

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