Good Company - FP&A Atlassian Employee Review

5.0
3 Feb 2022
Recommend
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Pros

* One of the best companies I've ever worked at. * Surrounded by incredibly smart, talented, and passionate people. * You will work with and learn industry-leading, bleeding edge technology. * Competitive benefits. * Strong brand to leave with on your resume (provided you can actually take something with you in terms of new skills or experience). * This place has culture. I don't know how to put it into words, but it was there. Maybe it's because the company had its roots in uber-nerdy, tech geeks, and they stayed that way (and also took the company to what it is today!)

Cons

* Absolute grind, like a steamroller. I saw many a good employee burned out by the long hours. Finance team specifically has long hours, demanding deadlines, and will get no sympathy from anyone. I often looked around and certainly didn't see sales ops or marketing being forced into the same deadlines or workload. Finance really feels like the whipping boy of the company. Seriously, I thought "burnout" was a joke that weak people used as an excuse, until it came time to leave this company and I honestly thought I had lost my ability to work -- focus, energy, everything. * The Bay Area office really harbors some serious nose-in-the-air liberal culture. The company takes a stand on every single issue, people in the office look down on you for using a trashcan (rather than a recycling bin or compost -- why would you even use something that can't be composted or recycled??). Upside -- it makes for really entertaining discourse when the Poland office is asked to take the same stand, when they may not necessarily harbor the same values. I just want a workplace, not a political rally.

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3.0
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Pros

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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