Pass the kool-aid & make sure you blog it..... - Software Engineer - Java Developer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
Apr 10, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Interesting work if you can get onto the right team. Chances to become full stack developer and try out some new technologies. Some smart people to learn from if you can look past the ego it is coming from, at the same time. Well stocked kitchens. I would recommend to a friend as has the chances for some nice work, and looks like a nice stepping stone to something else in the future.

Cons

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 Just doing excellent work is not enough, as even though, yes you fixed this stupidly outdated and broken process, but you failed to blog about it for 3 weeks prior to actually making the change and 2 people over there had an error this morning and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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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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