Software Engineer - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Apr 11, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It's probably the biggest homegrown software company in Australia.

Cons

1) What the company publicises as its values are entirely the opposite of what goes on inside 2) People at the leadership level have no qualms lying to customers and the rest of the world about the features that are under development and their status 3) So called 'designers' in every team who are constantly 'envisioning' or 'sparring' and never around to answer the team's questions on work that's in progress 4) Mediocre people stuck at middle management will stymy the progress of anything good or useful unless it makes them look good to their managers so that they can take credit for their work 5) Promotion is decided by a secret council of managers most of whom you've never worked with, but get to decide who is worthy of promotion

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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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