Stack Ranking/PIP Hell, avoid at all costs - Senior Software Engineer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Jan 14, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

* WFH * I have to fill out more than 5 words

Cons

* With the new CTO and a whole slew of ex-meta people taking over in the past 1.5 years, a once great, supportive, productive, team oriented culture has been taken out back and given the ol' yeller treatment. Very bad stack ranking, quotas, hire+fire, smart people getting let go, not to mention nosedive in team collaboration, backstabbing to take credit for work, etc, to survive APEX review time. Truly a despicable outlook on things. * Avoid if you value WLB, your sanity, and don't want to be part of the FAANG+ PIP hell.

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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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