Save your mental wellness - Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
May 1, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Great salary - Great perks

Cons

My experience does not reflect on all teams within the organisation, but I encountered significant challenges in the team I was part of. - I had the misfortune of working under a manager who had minimal involvement in project management. no sprint planning, no retrospective and barely joined in daily standups. The manager's approach primarily focused on questioning why tasks were taking longer without knowing other issues such as hotfixes and roadblocks. - Too many things to do besides work (surveys, set up goals, giving feedback, self-assessment). It made less productive. - Context switching is massive. It is a mind-killer. Once again, it is because of bad project management and lack of engineering resources and support. - They expect us to be an expert on everything. My role covered FE engineer, BE engineer, data engineer, product manager and CSR. - It’s hard to “play as a team” when you and your teammates have too many things on the plate. - It's more "built with impact". no matter how good your work if it doesn’t have a big impact, It’s nothing for them. Having big impact and doing it fast, that is just how they like it.

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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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