Some great people, and some terrible managers - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
25 Jan 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart, lively, driven people. Most people try to really practice the values. Using Atlassian tools for all aspects of work provides great transparency and efficiency.

Cons

Extremely poor management on some teams. Where those managers exist, and valid concerns have been made to HR, problems are brushed under the carpet. The main goal has become productivity - so when it comes down to it, the values go out the window. This undermines any trust any employee can have in the company. The values have become more of a marketing / recruiting strategy rather than something employees can believe in and do their best work to support.

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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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