Workplace that's an eye candy - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
Feb 28, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Down to earth founders who really care about their employees and visit the sites giving employees a chance to meet them and ask questions in person. Health insurance premium covered at 100% with extremely low deductible. Free lunches, snacks, and drinks. Great common area for chilling out. Lots of events happening at all times. Music or movie playing in the common area most of the time. Unlimited vacation.

Cons

Lots of people with huge egos who like to have a say in everything and like to criticize for the sake of having an argument. Management at the Austin site seem to have known each other for a long time and act very cliquey. No well defined career path for growth. Hard to find space where you can quietly focus on your work. No positive feedback given by management for a work well done. Austin site grew too fast and things are a mess when it comes to process and structure. People managing the process and structure don't seem to like doing either.

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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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