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What is the best part of working at the company?
The policy of Open Company means you really have visibility into all facets of the job and how other roles comingle and affect your own. Because information is freely shared, everyone is always happy to help and you don't feel like you have to deal with issues alone.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The former dual-CEO leadership meant more humanity was applied to company decisions, but since the departure of one of the CEOs, decisions are made based on a spreadsheet where people are a line item. This means your role can and will be affected by changes every quarter. The whiplash is very real.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The company is Remote First and the people are fantastic to work with. There's little distinction between roles and the feeling of teamwork is very prominent. In recent years, the company has adopted a survival-of-the-fittest attitude to reviews so the culture is changing to become more cutthroat like other large companies.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
With such a large ecosystem, there's always some new innovation needing to be learned, a new process being tested, or some change to team priorities to adapt to. For someone who thrives of the chaos that keeps you "on" this is a great environment to learn in. For anyone looking for a "typical" day to day, expect a rocky ride.

The reason I joined Atlassian was for their values, and the Co-founders seemed great and very involved in the company. But I did not find the values to be true in fruition. Very little efficacy and ability to make an impact even though there are so many areas that could use improvement. They recently went on a large hiring spree then completed layoffs not even 6mos. later. They are still hiring for roles that I know some of those impacted could absolutely fulfill. Overall, the promise and the reality were two very different things. 

Management does not respect engineering decisions and pushes their own political agenda. There is no accountability or ownership of anything, and when management says that there will be accountability what they mean is that engineers should be accountable for broken solutions forced on them by management. Management makes drastic and terrible decisions, and then claims everything is fine even though a large portion of engineers are angry about it and multiple have quit or transfered to other teams over it.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Some of the people and culture. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lots of change, almost weekly. No true north start and a lot of legacy practices that are hard to break. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very relaxed, not a lot of accountability. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Looking for things to do, always trying to make things better w/ little reaction from executives

If you are a full time employee, you will enjoy working here. Full time employees get great benefits and the company works hard to foster a sense of community. The founders seem to care about their employees. But in my experience, contractors are seen differently and my impression when I left is that they're going to divide that line further.

Atlassian was amazing prior to Scott leaving. The co-CEO arrangement worked well. People were focused on building amazing things, helping each other, and having fun.

The past 2 years have been a swift decline into everything that makes a tech company unbearable. People are stack ranked during reviews against mysterious or  unexplained criteria. Managers are politicking to get ahead regardless of the impact on others. Benefits are being pulled back. 

If you worked at Meta then Atlassian will look familiar. 

Day to day work is great, excellent culture (for the time being). 100% remote company.    As the company grows and the founders become less interested due to being billionaires and wanting to do other stuff, they are handing over a lot of control to the board and allowing dramatic changes that will eventually change the culture.

I don’t think you’ll find a better culture fit in tech anywhere else even if the company has gone through lots of changes over the last couple years as the tech industry has suffered. I’ve been on 3 different teams in 3 years and everyone here has been super nice and respectful. You don’t need to be afraid to reach out to anyone and if you put your work in, you’ll learn a lot. I will say it’s not as ambitious and fast paced as other big tech companies.

great place but after the layoffs, trust is lacking and teams are being asked to work faster without clear direction or alignment. Too many layers between leadership and management, looking at the the bigger picture, leadership doesn't realize teams are understaffed and running in circles as there is no alignment between the business, department and teams goals

I was a contract employee, so I can't say much about the benefits here. Although from heresy it's pretty great. It has gotten more bureaucratic as time has gone on, but the cofounders try to listen to their employees. My favorite part of the company is how they try to stick to their values.

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