All about the values! - Engineering Manager Atlassian Employee Review

4.0
Aug 16, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Atlassian are very much a values based company - it's a core part of their interview process and something that permeates into your day to day working once you arrive. If you don't know the values then definitely read up on them as if they're not for you then neither is Atlassian. This is a place where you can really come in and make the changes you think are required to make impact in your job, there is lots of existing status quo but it's all able to be openly (and respectfully challenged). They care a lot about their employees, and even during COVID are going above and beyond to ensure that we're having as good as an experience as we can do by running lots of trainings, team events and budget for social(ly distanced) entertainment.

Cons

Chance can (and does) happen quickly - it's always well rationaled, thought out and communicated but if you find yourself caught up in the midst of it can feel rather daunting and chaotic and you can feel rather like a fairly small piece without control of your professional situation. They are a very large (and expanding) company and this means that there are lots of information sources to get your head around, and it's easy to miss out on important updates if you don't have a good routine of news gathering. Without that you spend all your time reading up on things and not progressing on with your work (if you allow it, or can't stand not knowing about things happening).

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Pros

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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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