Used to be a great place--stay away now!
Pros
The business is very strong. Companies can't suddenly quit Jira. There were a lot of very smart people who worked here. Remote work is probably here to stay. Many teams report that the work is easy. I like my manager, and my team. If I didn't, I would have quit months ago. Atlassian gets two stars instead of one because I haven't experienced malicious incompetence, just the regular kind. Some tech employees have it worse than we do.
Cons
The business being very strong doesn't translate into pay or even respect for the people who work here. Atlassian leadership completely abandoned our values six months ago, at the first hint of a "challenging macro environment". If layoffs were even necessary, they were necessitated by our founders' reckless hiring spree. Yet, there has been little to no accountability for the overhiring (mandated by founders), the customer-hated product experience (enabled by founders), or the declining revenue growth (ignored by founders). Not only has there been a lack of accountability, the executives have the audacity to double down and say the reason we're not doing well (defined as the stock price not endlessly soaring) is because individual contributors are working too slow. Mike and Scott were fantastic at running a company with a thousand people. They haven't hired the right people to run a 5,000- or 10,000-person company, and we still have them along with multiple layers of management weighing in on minor decisions. We've paid consultants to come in and tell us how to scale, then ignored their recommendations. Stack ranking in performance reviews is phenomenally stupid, and will be the death knell for a famous culture that has been in a tailspin since February 2023. We reorganize every six months, then wonder why we move so slow. The data organization is a shock to people who come from modern tech companies. In terms of practices and technology, we're so far behind it's hard to believe. The people are fine, even good, but the C-level doesn't have a clue how to build a large company. It's surprising how fast things went south here. I left a glowing review a couple years ago, and that was my experience. It turns out everything I was working for was wasted. I've seen the work of hundreds of people mis-allocated or ultimately unwound because of a change in strategy, which many of us foresaw long before it happened.