Progressive company with great benefits - Security Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

5.0
Sep 27, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Everyone you work with is super smart. It does feel like the company cares about their people and even the global community, i.e. the company is run on 100% renewable energy, we get paid time off for volunteer work, charity donation matching up to (I think) $2500 per year. Something else that I'm impressed by is the progressive, open culture where people feel open to speak about issues other than the typical mind-numbing water cooler talk at a company-wide level (issues like loss, suicide, infertility, taking a break for mental illness, etc.). Paid therapy sessions. A budget of $500 per year for wellness. Time off gets automatically approved.

Cons

The worst thing about working at Atlassian is the cringey silicon valley humour that sometimes socks you in the mouth when there's a US-based meeting. Not quite "corporate" cringe, very much in a league of its own.

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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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