Slow but stable - Software Developer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
5 May 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You want to explore Australia top tier tech company. Free snacks and drinks and ice creams if you don't mind gaining weight. Business seems to be steady even when the environment seems to be more toxic everyday.

Cons

The inside might not quite be what you are expecting. Hard working is not rewarding here, in most cases I know it rather quite punishing. Try not to do anything that upset people that out rank you, instead try to provide them with the solution ready and demo as easy as it could be, the credit is their, but you'll be able to avoid pain in the future and hopefully switch team when you are too sick with the status quote of current team. It's a mediocre nine to five job, don't bring your laptop home and do not work extra hours. After a few years I felt it was extremely unethical of me to encourage junior developers to contribute even if they love to, nothing good will come of it. Instead learning from the bad pattern here and invest best practice in your own project to prepare for your future job. Performance review and pay rises are often incomprehensible. Due to the level of education, worthwhile contributions are ignored in favor of political goals in order to maintain benefits for certain people.

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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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