Atlassian reviews

As the company grew, politics grew even more. Favouritism in managers and sycophancy in the favourites was more evident. One instance in my team in their platform engineering domain after a leadership change was that a staff was even sending "missing you" songs to the manager everyday and and planning farewell/return event in team chat room when the manager went on leave. I also noticed that any innovative idea that would sideline/outshine a showcase deliverable by the more influential people was deliberately postponed or suppressed by prioritising minor work in the name of urgency. Even the good or challenging work was allocated to favourites in the team I noticed a lot of duplicate work/services was being done in their platform engineering teams because it was important for the managers to ensure they have some work to show. Many of these teams were trying to reinvent the same wheel again. There were some good developers there who could have contributed more doing the innovation in their products.

Not what it claims to be culture wise. Seems like most people were more concerned with making themselves valued than actually creating a cohesive team. I was suddenly terminated after two years of "valued" performance reviews. Definitely not the best engineer, but I didn't deserve to be kicked to the curb and treated so poorly. Security escorted me out after the surprise firing. No severance, no bonus (one month away from it), nothing. That's at-will employment for you I guess.