Intense, chaotic, constant crisis management and short term focus - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
Jul 7, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Generally pretty good pay and medical benefits. Brilliant people/ technical Offices are okay, but dated Onsite gym & medical clinic Fairly collaborative Systems and processes are current.

Cons

Leaders don't always live the values; Common to see bad leadership behaviors. 24/7 burnout culture - no work/life balance. Leaders are not visible, approachable, or well-respected. Many are known to chew people out in public and humiliate them. Unclear vision. Constant reviews: financial, operational, product... Short term management focus. Frequent RIFs. No one seems to be having fun. Ever. It's a pretty negative culture. Even toxic at times.

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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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