If you're in Sydney - stay away - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Sep 24, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Looks good on your CV

Cons

I would recommend against working here if you're in Sydney because: 1) Pay sucks Yes it sucks. Employees complain about it all the time. The company don't even pretend that they are trying to pay you fairly saying they are aiming for the median of the market, which is code for undervaluing you and your skills. Other people in the company doing the exact same work but in the US will get paid much more than you, well over and above the exchange rate. If you ask, management will give promises about improving pay but nothing really changes. With inflation, you will go out backwards. The Founders are now so rich I think they have no concept of what life is like for wage slave employees. When you pay 70 million dollars for a house it's inevitable I suppose. If you ask them about pay or about how expensive living in Sydney is your question will probably be ridiculed or ignored. Sadly, you're better off working for a bank, which is really saying something. 2) There are no more interesting or challenging roles left in Sydney. Unless you consider working on a 15 year old disaster codebase fun. The only people in the Sydney office who don't seem to notice have been around so long they no longer feel the pain of banging their head against a wall. Entire teams have been moved offshore. If a great new role comes up there's a good change it will go to someone on a visa. I have seen locals regularly passed over for interesting roles. 3) You must conform or you won't fit in The Founders have very strong views. Watch out if you don't agree. You will be publicly shamed into conforming or keeping your mouth shut. Unless you are a strong fit for far left social views and far right economic views you won't feel like you belong.

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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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