Pros: Psychological safety is very important. People feel free to speak their minds even if it goes against project goals. You're encouraged to not save anything for yourself, and you don't have anything to be afraid of. People will hear your arguments! People really hold the company's values to heart, and I think they are one of the great culture-defining things the company has. Employee wellness feels like a top priority. Work-life balance, for me at least, has been great, and I feel free to regulate it as long as work is getting done. For me, I have never seen a blame game take place. If there is a problem, people only try to understand it to prevent it, not to find someone to blame. Through these challenging times (cliché much?), the thought Atlassian has been putting towards employees is truly heartwarming. I'm proud to work here. Work is technically engaging. You work with smart people, and you're exposed to excellence quite often. You will learn stuff here.

Cons: Promotions are a HUGE con for me. As someone not interested in bureaucracy, I'm fortunate to be in a place in my life where I'm not in need of the extra responsibility & money attached to a promotion to the next level. Even though I fully believe I'd be qualified for the next position, the process to prove it is so grueling and cumbersome that I feel I'll never even want to partake in it. It will definitely be easier to look for a new job than to get promoted here. This gets brought up in every engineering all-hands, and the answer is always the same with different words. To paraphrase, the answer is always something like: "Yeah, I hear you, but we need to keep quality, and we believe it's fine like this, so nothing's gonna change." At least they are transparent about it. To get promoted, you have to build a paper trail (evidence, links, dates, testimonies, Slack conversations, Zoom recordings, pull request links, etc.) of performing at the next level for a whole year. It's always a fight, but if you ace the interview, you can still get hired into that level for one witty afternoon. I honestly feel that the paperwork for visas is way easier than this. I think although the need to keep the bar high is 100% true, there must be a better way. The company would be a 5-star from me if this was not an issue. If there was a 3.5-star option, I'd give it that (hence 4 stars) because when I learned this was the process, it broke my spirit and my drive to move up the ladder here. On the other hand, if you are someone that navigates office politics well, you'll not suffer this much, I reckon.

Pros: Interesting work if you can get onto the right team. Chances to become a full-stack developer and try out some new technologies. Some smart people to learn from, if you can look past the ego it is coming from at the same time. Well-stocked kitchens. I would recommend to a friend, as it has the chances for some nice work and looks like a nice stepping stone to something else in the future.

Cons: Getting on the right team can be difficult. Salary is low. Salary details are not shared (and for good reason, as there is a massive difference between salaries for the exact same positions throughout the company). It will usually take sourcing other employment opportunities to discover your true worth and get HR to do anything about it, if you are deemed worthy of keeping. And while the company considers itself very collaborative, this is taken to the extreme. Unless you are able to self-promote every single thing you do, every single day, then no one will have any idea that you even exist. Worse of all, though, for me, is the shifting goalposts. Performance reviews are quite a joke, as they entirely depend on which team you work on and how good buddies you are with your Team Lead. Just doing excellent work is not enough. Even though, yes, you fixed this stupidly outdated and broken process, you failed to blog about it for 3 weeks prior to actually making the change. And 2 people over there had an error this morning and instead of fixing it, had to spend 1 hour figuring out who to blame (when they could have actually read the 1 blog that you did write – though 10 is better than 1, of course!). Anyway, most of this stems from far too many people drinking the Kool-Aid on a daily basis, which, in my opinion, is caused by the fact that for the majority of people, they have never experienced anything else in their working careers.

Pros: Atlassian used to be good in some areas, but now there is almost nothing good about it. Work from home Stock grants

Cons: Atlassian is a sinking ship and extremely dysfunctional and toxic. Staff mental health is very low. * Bullying * Toxic culture * Toxic managers * Toxic senior leadership * Blame culture * Back stabbing * Bad engineering * No trust * Unpaid overtime * Chaotic work environment * Stack ranking * Authoritarian leadership * No growth or learning * Boring work * Corporate spam * Politics * Very low morale * On-call * Continual incidents * Incompetent managers