Great WLB, remote policy but culture shift is making things worse - Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
23 Sept 2024
Recommend
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Pros

-WLB is great. Pretty hard to get hold of people outside 9am-6pm -Current TEAM Anywhere policy allows you to work completely remotely, completely in-office, or hybrid. You choose

Cons

-Company has been cutting/downgrading certain benefits because "they aren't industry standard" -Culture is pivoting to "move fast, break stuff" type culture where PR count and # of lines of code are prioritized and employees are stack ranked for PIP -Company likes to parrot its 5 values and it used to closely adhere to them but with the aforementioned culture pivot, they haven't been following them as closely

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Cons

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Pros

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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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