Become toxic lately - Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
Aug 22, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing benefits and good pay. Some decent teammates

Cons

Place has become toxic lately with everyone fearful of their jobs , stressed and overworked.the famed Atlassian values are no longer a thing - It's just another tool for management to use against you. Management has been given new pip targets by new leadership. So although there are no public layoffs(at least for now), silent layoffs continue to happen on the quiet. People are being managed out or are being put on PIP to avoid severance. This is barely a year after the founders had provided a target to double the headcount from 12k to 24k. People are actively colluding to setup co workers. Stack ranking is a thing where employees within a leaders org are being stack ranked. Managers are deliberately misguiding employees in 1:1's and setting them up for failure or giving them unreasonable targets so that they fail.

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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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