No significant cause for complaint - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

5.0
26 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great work, great environment, an increasingly clear vision toward a noble aim with lots of opportunity.

Cons

There is a bit of chaos as things grow fast, but it's pretty clear up front that's what folks are signing up for. The thing that prompted me to write this review is in response to some of the negative comments. Either these are isolated cases or falsified, as the behaviours that emerge from the company's values would not sustain this on any scale. Yes, there are some inexperienced managers, but the culture of openness and autonomy that exists pervasively makes me wonder how these issues could not have been raised and dealt with, as so many other things are on a daily basis. So that's my "con", that for whatever reason it seems there are people in the org who were carefully hired based on a set of values, but were unable (or unwilling?) to work things out in the most positive environment they're likely to come across. Other than that, software is hard, and that's true here too. The ways that it is hard varies by product/project.

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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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