Atlassian reviews

New performance assessment system is complete trash. Your main focus for each quarter is how you can make your performance review look good. They put a very large emphasis on metrics like PR count and encourage you to be in the 75th percentile. Only issue is this data is public, and the number is always shifting so you will always have to do more in other to be above others trying to do the exact same thing. You get chopped if you don't. I've seen this turn people against each other to boost their own numbers.

This can happen at any company, but it seems making that next step is hard. I knew multiple EDRs who had consistently hit numbers and been in the position for years. There may have been things I wasn't aware of happening behind the scenes, but rather disheartening to see some colleagues be shown praise in meetings and QBRs for years but not with promotions