Meh... - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
15 Sept 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Lot's of free food and T-Shirts (but interestingly no coffee!). Working at Atlasssian was a great resume builder, but probably the worst job I've had.

Cons

Atlasssian is a very very very cliquey place. If you don't fall in with the right crowd or have different opinions, you're not going to do well there. When I worked there I was amazed at the amount of internal politics, and how everything is decided by committee. There are also a lot of people who've been there forever but don't really have any job definition. They're just kinda buddies with the founders and so they stick around. Lot's of trolling on things like internal Blog posts. In short it was just a very poor experience. I felt like I was in some kind of cult where everyone was drinking the Koolaid in public but behind closed doors everyone whined about how the company was being run. For their part, the founders have made their money, and have started investing in other startups and even getting involved in the Australian political scene to a certain extent, so they're pretty checked out. The pay was lower than average, but like Google in the early days lots of people were willing to take that in return for having Atlasssian on their resume (I know I was!).

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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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