The Atlassian dream is dead - Engineering Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
28 Apr 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Great benefits (healthcare fully paid, $1000 home office set-up stipend, $250 learning stipend, $600 wellness stipend) - Working with global colleagues -In-person offices are amazing - Solid products with name recognition

Cons

The Atlassian written about previously in 5 star reviews is now dead. We're experiencing major growth pains as we try to rapidly scale but only flounder. There are teams that still have no goals, KPIs, or vision. I have never experienced more incompetency from leadership in anywhere I've worked. They recently laid of 500 people seemingly at random. Teams can no longer function as a result and leadership is completely lost. The culture has soured to the point where people weaponize values and stab each other in the back to stay afloat. Incredibly toxic. I'd leave if the job market wasn't so horrible.

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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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