Atlassian Software Engineer - Java Developer reviews

Getting on the right team can be difficult. Salary is low. Salary details are not shared (and for good reason as there is a massive different between salary for the exact same positions throughout the company) and it will usually take sourcing other employment opportunites to discover your true worth and get HR to do anything about it, if you are deemed worthy of keeping. And while the company considers itself very collaborative, this is taken to the extreme and unless you are able to self-promote every single thing you do, every single day, then no one will have any idea that you even exist ..... Worse of all though for me is the shifting goalposts. Performance reviews are quite a joke as they entirely depend on which team you work on, and how good a buddies you are with your Team Lead. Just doing excellent work is not enough, as even though, yes you fixed this stupidly outdated and broken process, but you failed to blog about it for 3 weeks prior to actually making the change and 2 people over there had an error this morning and instead of fixing it had to spend 1 hour figuring out who to blame (when they could have actually read the 1 blog that you did write (but 10 is better than 1 off course!) ..... Anyway, most of this stems from far too many people drinking the kool-aid on a daily basis, which in my opinion is caused by the fact that for the majority of people, they have never experienced anything else in their working careers.

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