It is not Open Company, No BS... It is Open Company and hence too much BS - Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
1 Feb 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Free food, drinks, social events. - Free T-shirts

Cons

To be successful at Atlassian, you need to, 1. Talk 2. Keep Talking 3. And not stop talking - The technology used is old and most folks have no idea how the product works. Afraid to rewrite them. - You need to talk a lot to be recognised and successful. Majority of the blogs are written for silly reasons and are of no value causing the more important ones to be ignored. - The work environment has a lot of distractions... Like blogs, useless chats.. - Managers are like their products.. Worst performance, Have no idea why they want something done... They have no clue on how to manage people... - The only reason their products(major ones) are a success is because there is no similar competing product in the industry..

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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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