Still lots of good things about it - Senior Product Designer Atlassian Employee Review

5.0
Nov 16, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There have been many changes in the past year but there are still many good things about working here. I'm still happy to be here. Compared to every other workplace I've experienced, Atlassian values performance and rewards accordingly. There's generous equity grants which blow many other companies out of the water. You get to work with really smart, capable and switched-on people who genuinely care about their work. There's a lot going on so you're continually learning and growing as you do high-impact work on products that so many people use. This is the place to be if you want the work you ship to actually matter. I could go on... Free breakfasts, lunches, wellness benefits, kudos. Not many other companies can compare.

Cons

Lots of change. There is increased pressure to move fast (not really a bad thing in itself but no team can sustain this pace for a long period). But I'd say the biggest con is how many useless or at best, tangential roles there are. Each tries to show its value but really, only add to process, administration and overhead, hindering teams from moving fast and shipping work.

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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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