Atlassian reviews

3.2

47% would recommend to a friend

(3,621 total reviews)
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Mike Cannon-Brookes

41% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

Atlassian has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 3,621 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Atlassian employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jan 11, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, generous stock grants, fun office, lots of company events. The company overall is an amazing place. It's a fantasy world that doesn't exist in many other places. The people there are generally great. Being in that office you feel like you are definitely doing something special with your life. If you get on the right team Atlassian will be the great company you will ever work for. There are a few areas within support that have a lot of happy people(but its rare).

Cons

If you get on the wrong team Atlassian will be the worst company you will ever work for. Everyone on the Jira team is unhappy but no one can leave. The stock compensation is so great that you will never find another role that pays better than your Atlassian salary + bonus + stock RSUs. This means unhappy people keep sticking around with their Golden Handcuffs getting tighter and tighter. After enough time you've lost more technical skills than you've gained so now are even more stuck. Obsession with metrics keeps everyone overworked and overstressed. Chasing arbitrary performance improvement goals leads to management working to block support engineers from participating in all the amazing company events. Your worth is measured by the time you sit in a chair at your desk rather than the results you deliver. Management uses Confluence to run projects because they can't be bothered to learn arguably the best project management tool out there, Jira. Even the Jira support team can't use Jira to manage projects because management can only use a wiki tool. Senior engineers on Jira support team are turned into supervisors to help whip the team harder and increase throughput, rather than focusing on technical work which would actually solve issues. Training was a joke, engineers are provided 4 hours to watch some YouTube videos or read some text and claimed to have "skilled up". Management has no understanding that technical training is something that has to be continuous and takes real time. Training of course requires long term investment, in the short term it requires engineers to not produce units of work with the understanding that it the time will pay off in the long run. This isn't valued because the metrics are looked at on a daily basis, all focus is on finishing the day/week with the highest numbers possible and dealing with tomorrow another day. The interview process is misleading. It's a very technical interview promising you will do a lot of technical work. Then you start and find out you are supervising people and documenting every conversation you have with junior engineers so that it can be weaponized by management. Your technical abilities will die here because all of your brainpower is devoted to playing the politics.

5.0
Jan 4, 2019

Organisation with great Values

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Strong values which governs the organisation decision - Invested in making sure the workplace and the benefits continue to evolve and be the best in the industry - Open communication - On a growth path and leaders are not worried about taking risks - Strong product offering - Competitive salary/total compensation

Cons

Nothing specific to share currently

1.0
Jan 2, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Atlassian is a nice place to work at, it has the perks: breakfast, lunch, open floor plans, semi-relaxed work atmosphere, etc. You can generally work in your own style and 90% of the time that's okay - which is a really good thing.

Cons

If you're just starting your career, and really care about it then you *need* to stay far away from Atlassian's "Graduate Developer" program. You might have had some other experience - open source experience, other jobs, freelancing, etc - but if you apply for that position then they'll only ever see you as a newbie university student and they'll always use that against you. You might have an aptitude for programming, or you might just be really great at it - if so, good for you! But, Atlassian is *not* the place for you to build your career if that's the case. Say you join a team of Developers or Senior Developers, and you've been performing and working at the same level (or even higher) for over 12 months straight? Sorry, no promotion or career development for you. You were a "Graduate Developer". That means you're promoted based on the performance of *all the other Graduate Developers*, not based on what you do. TL;DR: If you don't care about your career from the start, you're happy just to coast for years and have no desire to move forward, then this job is for you. But, if you care about your career progression, you have a passion for software development and want to make the world a better place, then stay far away from their "Graduate Developer" program - they'll only stop you, halt you and won't ever recognize the good work that you do until maybe half a decade down the track they decide that you're a real developer and should be treated accordingly.

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Atlassian Response
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We're sorry to hear about your experience. We built the graduate developer program with the goal of enhancing grad careers and facilitating career development; we'll keep working to make sure that goal is achieved across the board. When evaluating promotions, those decisions are based on individual performance and readiness for the next level. If you've received different information, we would encourage you to speak with your manager and voice any concerns. ~Atlassian People Team
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