Undergoing a Significant Amount of Change - Design Operations Manager Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
26 Jun 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

When I joined the company culture was one of the best I have ever experienced. Great pay and benefits,

Cons

“Work Anywhere sounds good in marketing copy, but in practice it requires a significant amount of flexibility from employees depending on the team and timezone. Culture has been in rapid decline the last couple of years and I’ll frame it like this. Atlassian has been cruising as a “start up” for the past 20 years. Which is awesome until the challenges of running a public company become realities that need to be addressed. Atlassian is being forced to rapidly grow up. And unfortunately it’s becoming a true “Tech company” with all the culture killing implications that come with hiring talented specialists from more mature companies like Meta, Google, and Amazon…

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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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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