Awesome work env, but too many recent hires - Software Development Engineer II Atlassian Employee Review

4.0
16 Feb 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Free food! * Fun work environment * Great tools for you to work at your best * Some really good coworkers from whom you can learn and collaborate

Cons

* Most of the challenging assignments are in Sydney, Bangalore site is new and there isn't enough trust to delegate parts crucial to company's success * Team sizes are large (for me personally), makes you feel out of loop; need to wait for information to trickle down * Feel I have less autonomy as a developer, redundant hierarchy and team sizes make it nearly impossible to feel a sense of ownership * I feel I was paid much less than my peers

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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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