Atlassian reviews

Very hard to get promoted or move within the company

There is a major disconnect between leadership and the people that they lead. I often heard our VP say "all the right things", but never saw any of those ideas put into action. I believe that this is the result of a few different factors, but they can all be summed up by saying that leadership seems to be happy judging their success by what amounts to be made-up metrics and just leaving it at that. In my department, at least, no one at any level of leadership seemed to have a very good grasp of what the operational realities were and none of them seemed to care to either and that is the part that kills me. There were a lot of interesting ideas, but no real care put into understanding the current situation when coming up with a plan to implement them. Right before my departure, a major change in operations occurred with less than an hour of training and no opportunities for those actually doing the work to provide input. There was a lot of trying to force a round peg into a square hole and then blaming the people on the ground level when things didn't work out. Accountability only ever seemed to apply to the lowest on the totem pole.