Continuous downhill slide - Senior Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

2.0
Jul 29, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Fully remote. A lot of engineers have never been a part of a high-functioning engineering team and it's very easy to make improvements to team processes. Unfortunately, it means little during review time that you've enabled 20 other engineers to double their output if you haven't reached whatever arbitrary PR count they're looking for during review time.

Cons

My Atlassian rating has shifted from 5 stars to 2 stars in just the past 2 years. It started with "I feel empowered and they care about their employees!" to... "Well things aren't as great anymore, but at least it's still decent." To... "Wtf is going on here?" Expectations are unclear. People in high positions with no direction and forcing lots of thrash as they change their minds constantly. Twice a year performance review where PR count and PR comment length are heavily weighted. Imagine drastically improving the code and your team's processes, having full support from your team and manager, then getting near review time and your manager asking you to bump up your PR count because it's not high enough. Executives boast about giving unreasonable deadlines in the face of everyone trying to reason with them. They brag when their projects complete and don't acknowledge the late nights and weekends the teams worked to build a flashy proof of concept that won't scale. Overall, they've set up performance reviews and hierarchy in a way that discourages collaboration and encourages individualistic heroism. Ironic for a company whose mission is to "Unleash the potential of every team." Even if you land on a good team with better values, the toxic culture still seeps in.

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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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