Update: New year, same old excuses - Content Designer Atlassian Employee Review

3.0
May 27, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Decent work-life balance * You mostly have the tools and resources to do your job properly * The company transitioned to remote well * People are generally polite and respectful to work with

Cons

It's been almost 3 months since my last review. During that time, Atlassian brought in 2 new content designers. They also hired or promoted 3 new content design leads. All 5 are white. The content design team is now more homogenously white than when I first joined it. Even though Atlassian transitioned to remote and new labor markets opened up, leadership is still cherry picking white people. Actions speak louder than words. It's ironic that a group of content experts don't comprehend that. You can't call yourselves woke if you deliberately sleep on POC talent. If you don't live and lead according to your values, then you never adopted those values to begin with. Original: The makeup of content design leadership is 100% white. The makeup of FTE content design team members is almost 100% white. Marketing content, Playbook content, and DevOps content teams are also almost 100% white. I've been surrounded by white content experts who understand the risk and consequences of inconsistent and deceptive messaging when it comes to their products. But they lack credibility and empathy with their diversity and inclusion messaging. For a full year, they've aggressively marketed themselves as inclusive while continuing a long pattern where only white people are hired, promoted, and meaningfully included. It's a disturbing and dangerous pattern, and I'm saddened that Glassdoor is the only outlet where it's possible for leaders to pay attention and hold themselves accountable for their gatekeeping.

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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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