Pros: * Lots of random days off on Mondays and Fridays * Totally remote if you want * Lots of hackathons to work on what you want

Cons: Large companies move slowly, and your projects have lots of stakeholders. Launches are frequently delayed and messy. Turnover, restructuring, and the focus on building new features result in lots of tech debt and a lack of ownership.

Pros: Great company values that are actually followed by the leadership. Lots of opportunities to learn and grow, especially for younger engineers.

Cons: Nothing major in my case, but it depends on the team. Make sure you understand the kind of problems the team is working on and the things they optimize for.

Pros: The base salary is reasonable for the industry, but equity grants make a huge difference to the overall compensation package. Remote work is a great benefit, although not being able to work face-to-face does hinder progress at times. Very clever team.

Cons: The company no longer upholds its values. At this point, they are simply meaningless platitudes trotted out during values interviews. Bi-annual performance reviews are a big distraction for management and ICs, both. As an IC, you need to justify your job twice a year in 300 words or less per performance pillar, with no other means to express your contributions. You are then left waiting 6-8 weeks each time to discover your rating and whether you even still have a job. This is not to mention the 4-8 weeks management spends each time writing assessments for their direct reports and in calibration meetings. The lost productivity is huge. The org I work in lacks long-term vision. We are constantly chasing short-term goals and working to add new features to our products, without shoring up the foundations to make what we have already delivered to customers bulletproof. This only serves to increase the technical debt in our products and the burden of their continued support. Despite selling the company's soul in pursuit of becoming a world-class engineering company, the stock price remains largely flat, yet wildly erratic on a week-to-week basis. That which once made Atlassian a standout company is gone, and all that is left is the hollow echo of "dev-joy" being chanted by leadership as though that will make up for everything that has been lost.