Atlassian reviews

- Performance reviews were rough and often skewed downwards pushing less and less people into Exceeds and more into Meets most. - Lots of pressure from upper management to constantly move fast and use ai even when ai is not the solution.

Where to begin? The culture used to be great: collaborative, fun, interesting work. In the last 2-3 years it changed drastically. Good people started leaving and the leftovers started bringing in their friends. These external hires were favored over internal promotions. Insecure new managers who know they would never make it as an IC, manage long-tenured experts. Twice a year performance reviews pit colleagues against each other, by design. The product itself is now suffering as well; great engineers have left and took their knowledge to better companies.