Unique culture and mostly a great place to work - Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

5.0
20 Feb 2021
Recommend
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Pros

1. Highly transparent internal culture. Decisions are made in the open, and heated discussions are allowed. 2. Good work life balance. No expectations to work over time. 3. Takes care of employee very well, from renewed parental leave policy to small gifts 4. Many very competent colleagues to learn from, and most people are very nice and helpful

Cons

1. Middle engineering management are often not the most articulate. They organize restructuring, but have never been able to articulate the reasons why, other than vague references to resources utilization and focus. In my view good leadership should include vision and charisma 2. The company product line is getting stale. Mostly expanding by acquisition.

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5.0
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Pros

-Good TC package -Great team to work with with good leadership direction -Growth/Expansion Mindset

Cons

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3.0
30 Apr 2023
Recommend
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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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