Culture shift - S S E(Senior Software Engineer) Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
Sep 13, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Peers (at IC level) are very nice folks

Cons

- Stack ranking - Managers are not up front if you're not going to meet/exceed expectations - Lower rankings tend to come as a surprise since manager was telling you that you're doing great and trending to exceeds - Software is about complacency, folks don't care about improving and optimizing - If it's working, let's keep doing it - No owner ship from end to end

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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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