Working here for one year so far. Summary: Good! - Systems Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

5.0
30 Jan 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Lots of smart people - Extreme level of autonomy - Strong values, that are apparent when making decisions - Generous perks and remuneration - Easygoing, blame-free culture; more interest in fixing & getting it done

Cons

- Sometimes smart people can decide that their clever solution is the best one, resulting in lots of clever, unique solutions (lack of unification) - High autonomy can sometimes result in employees lacking short-term direction, even if the long-term goal is clear - Sometimes the "get it done" culture can suppress a good opportunity to slow down, relax, and reflect - instead of moving from one thing to the next These are all very nitpicky though; I have to put on my critical hat to produce these opinions.

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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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