Great for devs but be wary if you are applying for a non-technical role - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
Jul 18, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Challenging work, Most of the people there are at the top of their game. Atlassian looks after their employees with an unprecedented level of perks and freebies. No wonder they have won the #1 place to work three years running.

Cons

Still very much a siloed company made up of multiple teams competing for the founders' attention. Culture is not consistent across the company - one silo in particular is overly political and can be very toxic if you question what the silo leads are doing. Question or challenge the flip-flopping management within this silo and you will be pegged as having an "attitude" problem. Atlassian favours loud and/or opinionated alpha personalities and rewards/promotes as such. If you want to succeed at Atlassian, you must become known to the "right" people. Conclusion: Atlassian is a great place to work if you fit the mould.

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Cons

I want to start by saying I am not bitter or angry. Working for Atlassian was a whirlwind. I was there for 11 months before being laid off via email. In my time there, I went through 2 re-orgs and 3 managers. It just always felt like being on a hamster wheel… in a hurricane. Today I received an email 7 weeks after I was laid off that started with, “ Congrats on your first year at Atlassian—we know that's a huge accomplishment and are beyond thrilled to be celebrating with you!” It was a bummer to receive that, to say the least, but it included a link to leave this Glassdoor review to “ help provide invaluable insight to future candidates and help us to improve your experience as an employee continually.” so here I am. My advice is to do proper change management of your automated emails when you layoff 5% of your workforce so that emails like this aren’t sent to hard working former employees that you eliminated congratulating them on a milestone they never reached. I know this wasn’t intentional, but it hurt.

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