Atlassian Frontend Software Engineer II reviews

Too much focus on performance

There are a lot, if you are just looking for a brand name and ready to live in a constant fear of losing your job, then its ok. In a while, once remote work becomes a norm for you. You will realize what you are losing against that, i.e. your mental sanity. I will list down as much as I can, but you can be sure there are more Cons as its declining regularly. 1. Stack Ranking, Performance reviews twice a year with a mandate to put 5% in PIP. 2. PR Count is tracked. 4. Confluence doc count created matters, to a point people are creating docs and PRs unnecessarily to inflate these numbers. 5. Cut throat culture. 6. Skip level managers have a final say, without employee being given a opportunity to present their point of view. 7. Company is regularly firing and hiring. 8. Everybody is running into a rat race, just for the sake of surviving their job. 9. It has shifted from customer centric teams to self centric individuals. 10. People have to work 10-12 hours per day to get Met expectations rating to survive the job. 11. For roles less than P50, there are strict time lines to get promoted. If you don't get promoted in that timeline, you are on a PIP. Bonus is no body is ready to put down a formal check list on how to get promoted. Just vague generic statements. 12. If you plan to get married, and thinking of taking 15-20 leaves. Be ready for it to affect your rating, as your performance is compared with others without taking into consideration that you were on leave for almost a month. There are more, I guess other reviews have covered that. After takeover from Meta executives in leading roles and filling other senior roles with their known similar minded leaders. Atlassian is not Atlassian any more. It's Metalassian. These leaders couldn't succeed in Meta, nor Microsoft. But somehow now they are also bringing Atlassian on same path. Ideally Atlassian Values should get changed to 1. Not so open Company. 2. Build with PR count in mind 3. Don't care about customer. 4. Play as an individual 5. Don't seek a change and follow the rat race. Atlassian was a wonderful place when I joined, now its a place I won't recommend anyone to join.