The culture is eroding! Atlassian Values no longer exists - Senior Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Jul 11, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Good pay - Work from home - Stock options and good bonus and refreshers

Cons

There are many which I figured out in my 2 year tenure. - An org. building project management/agile software like Jira does not utilize Jira well. Their processes are terribly bad and unclear. - Atlassian Real Values: Blame game, people pleasing, demotivation, Negative mindset, Politics and bring people down to climb up the ladder. - As managers create an empire of senior engineers irrespective of whether they have work or not to grow. - You will be judged based on failures only which might not be even relevant. - Arrogance in managers, juniors or new members are treated badly. - Actually nobody cares about how employees feel. There are internal employee surveys but feedback is not taken into account. Leadership will do whatever pleases them. - Avoid Data Portability team. Hell load of work, frequently changing expectations and pressure to meet deadline. Majority of the work do not even have any significant impact. Join at your own risk.

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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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