Great place to work, but a bit too much secret and politics - Java Developer Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
Dec 19, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Exciting products - Very smart people to work with - Given independence in the tools that I can work with - So much perks like foods and beers - So much social activities, like Melbourne cup and EOFY parties.

Cons

- Can get left behind by everyone if you don't blog regularly. No one will notice you're there. - They claim that they're an open company - but there are so many secrets. Some people are kept in the dark about things they want to know. - Management not interested in career development - very hard to move to another position that you're more interested in. They'd rather hire new people.

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3.0
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Pros

Amazing people, I loved the core values, competitive salary, great benefits

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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