Excellent place to work as a backend engineer - Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

5.0
Jul 14, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Super interesting work on the backend, lots of learning - Excellent technical managers - Knowledge sharing is engrained in the culture - Lots of empowerment and managers progressively increase scope and responsibility to help everyone stretch themselves to the limits - The company started adopting best practices across the backend in terms of focus on reliability and maintainability, incidents are tracked and reviewed and action is taken to fix root causes instead of just applying bandaid solutions (at least my team)

Cons

- Inconsistency between teams in terms of adhering to best practices, need more governance and standards - Lots of changes in priorities

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Cons

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3.0
Apr 30, 2023
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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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