Don't believe the hype - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
18 Jul 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free food, free beer and whiskey. Great place to work if you want to get bombed on a regular basis. Also, if you are a white male, this is really the place for you, especially if you miss that fraternity culture of people who "get you" (wink, wink) and understand how to kid around. You will love it here!

Cons

See all the five-star reviews starting from about nine months ago? Want to know why? Someone noticed, "Oh my gosh, we are getting bad reviews on glassdoor.com" and decided that something MUST BE DONE about this. So, that person, being an Atlassian True Believer wrote a blog and then everyone said, "We must fix this! I know, we'll all go online and write five star reviews!!" And then HR said, "I know, we can get on the bandwagon too, let's buy into the sponsored profile thing on Glassdoor so we can promote ourselves." And Mike and Scott sat back in their glass houses and said, "Whew, that's under control." And if you think I am making this up... I am not. If you want to join a cult and tow the party line, this is a great place to be.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

- slow progression - limited internal transfer

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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