Very inefficient business processes - Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Jun 14, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Can help with visa and relocation and provides some flexibility in personal time usage.

Cons

Company has overwhelmingly inefficient business processes. It has tons of legacy unmaintainable and untestable code without any real owner. This code is still used and is being chaotically changed and even populated with new features. There are no confidence in tests and no test coverage reports for legacy. That all turns development into neverending pain. You might think that 'legacy' is something temporary here but no - I can see that amount of such a code is only increasing. Internal documentation is very inconsistent and often outdated. Loyalty to management and avoidance of any disagreements are keys for career success. If you tend to understand words literally and looking for managers you can trust - this company is a very poor choice. Company provides very limited opportunities for self development, especially if it is not tightly related to roadmap of your team or does not promise quick turnaround. '20%' time policy has very limited application here: usually it is required that people tackle technical debt in that time.

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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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