Atlassian

I'm still around and have always been able to work on cool projects, but the company is changing, and change is hard. Read the cons.

I've been with the company for more than 5 years and have seen lots of changes. This last year had more changes than the last 5 together. Some of the changes are good in isolation, but together they are creating a toxic environment.

3 years ago, one of the founders said it was okay to have an "off year" and people wouldn't be judged for that. This year, they introduced stack ranking and are asking senior employees to rank their less senior colleagues.

3 years ago, they decided engineers had to focus on feature leading and managers on people leadership. This year, they are making non-technical managers redundant.

I always heard from the founders that shareholder pressure wouldn't drive the company. It looks like it does now. We are blindly following what other companies are doing due to pressure from the board. The stock price took a big dive, so maybe there's lots of upside if you only care about the money.

Do your own DD.

Stick to your word.