There's no such thing as a free lunch - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Dec 15, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free lunch Benefits Wacky t-shirts Australian accents Fun activities

Cons

The great south pacific cargo cult: Atlassian. A corporation trying its hardest to be an ersatz Google, both culturally and technically. Don't be fooled. The wacky t-shirts, hackathons, goofy hats, etc are a thin veneer over the rapidly declining cultural edifice. Prepare yourself for constant absurd politics, pointless territorial battles, and immature/ineffective management. The stateside brands (BitBucket and HipChat) represent small vanity projects on the fringes of the larger JIRA and Confluence empire. If you work on them you will be irrelevant. Additionally these two brands are 'also-rans' compared to the more prolific products in their respective sectors (GitHub and Slack) so you unfortunately don't even get any prestige or credibility.

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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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