Atlassian is where ambition goes to die - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
12 Jul 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Smart, friendly co-workers and a nice downtown office location. Plenty of time to slack, not do much of anything and be promoted for it. Just stay happy and abide by the illustrious company values.

Cons

Too much politics, and nonsense. People landing senior jobs because of relationship, not experience or skill. These same managers routinely chastise the (smarter) members of their team just to keep employed, knowing they're unemployable at any other company. To be honest, if you have something to offer, look elsewhere.

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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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