Open policies and respectful work environment - Software Developer Atlassian Employee Review

4.0
Aug 13, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Atlassian does a lot of things well – Internal documentation – technical, semi-technical and informal blogs that provide new folks with context on past decisions, and keep the fast-growing company feel less sparse. A design-engineering-product triad model that encourages a high trust between various function, and greater ownership with YBIYRI. A healthy work culture, opportunities to work with and learn from Atlassians in other locations. Some really good mentors (you just need to ask!)

Cons

The current office location (Eco-world) makes work-life balance a harder for those who aren't staying close by. By no means is the traffic an Atlassian-only problem, but when you've to spend 45 minutes to get outside the tech park (10 mins by walk) only to further get bottlenecked by the ORR traffic outside, it kills you a little. You'd expect a company like Atlassian to give this factor a little more importance than other companies, who either oblivious to it or have given up.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Amazing people, I loved the core values, competitive salary, great benefits

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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