* The Atlassian values, which really were a thing when I first started here, have all but gone up in flames in the past couple of years.
* Budgets for ITGs (intentional team gatherings) are wildly different depending on the quarter/year, team, and the level each person is at. Some people have never met their coworkers, and others have to travel more than they want to.
* The CTO hired extensively and quickly from Meta, Amazon, etc. and destroyed the Engineering culture entirely; now that Engineering is in charge of Support, that toxic culture has trickled down to the Support org.
* Also thanks to the new CTO, the Team Anywhere culture is being slowly destroyed. There are now jobs that can only be done from the Pacific coast in the US, and others that explicitly state they require time in the office. Others have an implied requirement / peer pressure to be in the office at least some of the time if you live nearby. Every single direct report of the CTO is on the West Coast, and all but 2 are in Washington state. One layer down from that, most leaders are still in California or Washington.
* It is incredibly hard to move up in some parts of the organization. The SE roles have regular opportunities for growth, and in Engineering if people don't move up in a certain time period that is considered bad, but on other teams, it's nearly impossible to go up a P level. Meanwhile if you're on the high side of compensation for your role, your
* APEX is basically the hunger games for performance management. Managers cannot rate their employees without oversight from "calibration meetings." If you do things outside your role, you are penalized because you're held to your job responsibilities during the calibration process, even if you were asked to do something that doesn't match your job description during that time period. Before APEX, coworkers were much likelier to help their teammates out without thinking about how it would affect their and employment.
* Atlassian now sponsors an F1 team, and executives are constantly traveling around the world to go to races and meet with the team. Atlassian previously had been committed to improving our environment. F1 is literally one of the worst things for the environment! Not only that, but with execs flying all over the world to go to expensive races, reducing ITG budgets is not a good look.
