Good culture but depends on where you are - Senior Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

4.0
1 May 2024
Recommend
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Pros

* Good benefits and pay * Interesting technical problems at scale * Smart people who can push you both technically and non-technically * Good culture centred around continuous improvement and customer centricity * Remote working and work/life balance are second-to-none

Cons

* Culture changes depending on where you land up (avoid Migrations - it's a feature factory) * Performance process pushes for evidence of code contributions - which can feel like an output-driven culture - and also stack ranks you against other team members * Promotions are notoriously difficult; Atlassian seems to hire more people into more senior roles rather than promote from within (especially P60+) * Extremely bureaucratic in its processes

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Cons

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Pros

Amazing people, I loved the core values, competitive salary, great benefits

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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