Once in a lifetime gig - Anonymous employee Atlassian Employee Review

5.0
Jun 28, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- fun, smart, but humble vibe to the company - best company i've seen at balancing running a business with investing in technology. both are equally important for the long term and the debates around balancing always healthy - company is bold, there is never a dull moment! - great to use your own products day-to-day

Cons

- sink or swim given most of your peers will be new! - too many arrows and not enough wood behind key ones - needs more structure in some areas, feels chaotic with people stepping on each other in the process

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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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