Fantastic place but promotion can be tricky - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

5.0
Apr 17, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great perks. Surrounded by some very smart people. Empathy that starts from the very top of the organisation.

Cons

Depending on the team you're in it can be difficult to create the opportunities you need as evidence for promotion. It seems much easier to be hired at a level than promoted to that level.

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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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