Challenging, but very pro-developer - Senior Systems Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

4.0
13 Feb 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Tons of very smart and talented people. Plenty of opportunities to have a positive impact on the products, on how people use them, and on how teams function. Lots and lots of attention paid to little details around the office - food, events, and general atmosphere - which make it a generally pleasant work environment. Everyone is encouraged to speak their mind.

Cons

It's a company founded by and for developers, so if you aren't a developer then it's easy to feel left out. (I can't just stop doing my job for the fun hackathon; if I stop doing my job then things break, badly.) Many in the company also tend to forget that incremental improvement is sometimes a better option for change than doing all the things at once. There's so much to be done that it's disturbingly easy to overextend. Teams can be a bit scattered geographically, which makes collaboration difficult, and there's a very strong bias in favor of Sydney when it comes to promotions, thought leadership, and meeting scheduling. Everyone is encouraged to speak their mind, and many tend to do just that even when they have no idea what they're talking about.

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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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