Great company to work for - Senior Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

5.0
Apr 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I found the people and the open culture to be the best part of the company. From onboarding to exiting, it was a really awesome experience. They'll do just about anything to make you feel comfortable and "ready for action".

Cons

In my very short period of time - there is a sense of entitlement among the younger staff. Atlassian provides food, drinks, icecreams etc - and I still heard people b**ching during lunch time. It's growing to fast that half the staff have only been at the company for less than a year - so the knowledge base has been diluted a bit. There is a huge amount of "cult" or culture - especially around work/life balance - but I did feel as if I was being monitored, and having a regular schedule of in/out was a no-no. So if you have a family, make sure you discuss the very real potential of spending a serious amount of time in the office with them.

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3.0
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Pros

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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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