Time to find a new job. - Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Feb 20, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free food. Stocks and bonus to make up for the below average base pay.

Cons

At first it was good. We had big electric height adjustable desks, aeron chairs and dual monitors. They are now, in an effort to jam more people in, limiting us to a single monitor on desks almost half the size, which cannot be used as stand up deaks anymore. They replaced our chairs with much cheaper ones which are far less comfortable. Contrary to what people might say, the infrastructure is inefficient, outdated and limiting. You wont get to use anything new. You need to document everything in order to get a payrise. There is no recognition for hard work

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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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