"The big picture" anyone? - Senior Developer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
29 Mar 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Low pay, long hours, no talent retention, micro-management culture, lack of vision, cloak and dagger HR, unethical, fake, just to name a few of the pros.

Cons

Atlassian is a hard slog but once your in your in right? wrong. unless you have no life outside work whatsoever you are constantly reminded that there are an army of JAVA grads ready to take your job. unless your happy to be in a cult / B-Rated version of Harry Potter avoid at all costs

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5.0
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Pros

Start up vibes great people

Cons

Lots of things currently shifting due to acquisition

3.0
30 Apr 2023
Recommend
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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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