Once great place ruined by middle management - Senior Developer Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
7 Oct 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Open culture, generous perks (free food, fitness classes, flexi-hours, great hardware)

Cons

- Not much innovation in the company. It has grown by acquisitions and there hasn't been any in-house development of a new product in the last decade. It's mostly running on the money brought in by the JIRA machine. - Middle management lacks people management skills. There is a lot of groupism and favouritism. If you are part of 'the group', you'll get promoted, but if you don't 'show loyalty' you'll be sidelined and be forced to move out. It's a classic case of long-term employees being promoted to middle management without any training. - In my team, one couldn't question the decisions of the leads. And this was purported as a 'team value'. There was a lot of micro management. Your disagreements could be highlighted as 'not playing as a team' during 1-1s. - It wasn't 'Open company' to me. One's comments on the internal wiki or messages in the public (internal) chat rooms could be used negatively during annual reviews by the lead.

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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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