Pros
Incredibly talented and inspiring individual contributors, good salaries.
Cons
Lack of leadership direction means that atlassian has been behind the ball for the past few years. There’s a serious lack of innovation within the company. We’re just seeing the reckoning of this with the recent layoffs. I’ve never worked at a company where employees were disappointed for not being laid off. All the most talented IC’s have left or are in the process of leaving. On an individual level, there is a dehumanising and psychologically damaging process of stack ranking engineers against their direct peers. Most of the bottom 10% are put on PIP / let go every year. There’s an underlying sense of fear for any interaction with colleagues. One cannot escape the irony of our stock price ticker…