Atlassian reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(3,612 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 3,612 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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1.0
Sep 18, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Company culture is good, maintains a collaborative spirit. Very engaging staff that is always happy to help others. CEOs seem to genuinely care about their teams, even forced the entire company to be work from home during Covid before it became the standard and declared that the choice would be the employee's in the future. Good benefits, 401(k) matching, decent salaries, good medical coverage

Cons

All of the cons here are related to the Support (Customer Success) teams Support team does not have the same culture as the rest of the company Support Senior Leadership has a “do what I say, not what makes sense” attitude Does not do collaboration well, despite making the software that supports remote collaboration Support leadership fails to keep up with rest of the company from a behavior and teamwork standpoint (As an example, support teams were required to be in the office over the holiday break, being the only people still in the office when everyone else was remote during that time (pre-Covid)) Places roadblocks to promotion quoting “policy”, internal promotion system is slow Highly qualified persons are passed over for a role and end up training external hires over them despite being “prepped” for the same role Company has grown beyond the scale of the software they make leading to issues and workarounds that slow down productivity Support team training consists of the same materials available to customers, it's mostly reading a bunch of articles. Very little actual investment in up-skilling their technical teams The other reviews that call out the Jira team experience are accurate but not limited to that team Interview process is extremely slow and not transparent, this is uniwe to support in my experience as other teams move much more rapidly and are able to make decisions at a reasonable pace and move forward, while support lags behind consistently

2.0
Jan 25, 2019

Some great people, and some terrible managers

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart, lively, driven people. Most people try to really practice the values. Using Atlassian tools for all aspects of work provides great transparency and efficiency.

Cons

Extremely poor management on some teams. Where those managers exist, and valid concerns have been made to HR, problems are brushed under the carpet. The main goal has become productivity - so when it comes down to it, the values go out the window. This undermines any trust any employee can have in the company. The values have become more of a marketing / recruiting strategy rather than something employees can believe in and do their best work to support.

2.0
Sep 1, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Good benefits - usual for a tech company: subsidized lunches, decent health cover, snacks * Some great people at the worker level

Cons

This review is mostly about the Bitbucket section of Atlassian. * Like in most big companies, there are are good and bad divisions. One of the bad ones is Bitbucket. Stay far away! * The culture has become toxic. There are a lot of unhappy staff. Morale is very low. In the past it was a lot better, but now the division no longer cares about preserving the culture that made the company great, or following the "Atlassian values". * This division has a lot of issues with management. They couldn't hire any engineering team managers for a long time. A lot of the ones they ended up with are terrible. There's been nearly a 100% turn over in product management. And two senior division managers recently left. * Pay is below market rates. In the past, the work culture and people were meant to make up for that. * Microsoft recently bought Github, the major competitor to Bitbucket. Bitbucket is already a distant second in market share. Bitbucket won't be able to compete against Microsoft's money and resources. * San Francisco offices are in a sketchy area - multiple staff members have been robbed, assaulted, or harassed going to/from work or at lunch.

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