Atlassian reviews

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.

Cosign many of the points made by the January 2 reviewer: Atlassian is great at bringing in motivated, quality talent and letting those folks languish. There is limited opportunity for upward mobility, and where it is present, your options are to work for a brand-new manager promoted out of seniority (hit or miss), or a transplant from a traditional enterprise software company whose cultural-fit section of the interview must have gotten cut short (sure miss). The HR team (I refuse to call them Talent, since they clearly do not see employees as such) is among the least reliable/responsive I've ever seen. To call them tone-deaf would be an understatement. Valid complaints around gender discrimination and hostile work environment are brushed off; the constant refrain of "look at the perks we offer" to questions around pay scale was once funny and is now just insulting. What perks?