Denial is a river - Content Designer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Apr 19, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

You can work from any location

Cons

Denial is so much easier than looking inward. Denial is so much easier than change. But denial needs narratives and cover stories. Denial needs content. Management is in denial about how rotten the working experience has become at Atlassian. All they can offer is empty, generic content about unlocking the potential of every team. Atlassian's vision and values reads like it was generated by AI. At this point, management is willfully ignorant. They've read every review here. They've mapped the user journey. They know that many content designers check Glassdoor during the recruitment process. They know they need to respond to all this feedback, either publicly or privately. But they are unwilling and incapable of moving forward.

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3.0
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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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