The culture is tanking - Program Manager Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
Jan 29, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Some truly wonderful people - mostly the ones hired before 2022-2023. Generous benefits, though those are diminishing. The culture pre-2024 was incredible and an extreme differentiator; sadly, it’s all but gone.

Cons

Senior leadership are increasingly resembling Silicon Valley characters created for comedic purposes: I don’t get the sense that any of them actually know what they’re doing or talking about. They convey very little meaning when they speak- it could all be written by ChatGPT and used interchangeably at any big tech company. The past 18 months have been constant leadership turnover and re-orgs, making it very difficult to accomplish anything! A particularly concerning example of senior leadership incompetence was the installation of a horribly misogynistic and toxic leader who openly sexually harassed people on his team. In 8 months of his “leadership,” 5 female managers were either demoted or fired. The only good thing I can say is that HR eventually had enough complaints to fire him, but he should have never been hired, and never placed in a leadership role.

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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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