Atlassian

Good WLB and TC. Coworkers are mostly great. Funny memes in Slack.

I've worked at Atlassian for a very long time. This place started out as legitimately something magical. It was an extraordinary company with such a beautiful, caring culture that still pushed for excellence in execution and performance.

What it has become is a shadow of its former self, and a watered-down, crappy version of some combination of Microsoft and Meta. Stack ranking. Job redundancies under the lie of them being retitling. Removing pro-old-culture managers at high levels with new ones that could give a damn about it.

Take heed. This is a very precise, dedicated decision from the board to turn the company from what was once an incredible place to shallow corpo hell.

More time is spent writing garbage on Confluence about performance and meeting KR / OKR / whatever it's called now than actual execution of code. Working on most of their products is an absolute nightmare. Stay clear.

Turn 180 degrees before it's too late if you want to preserve the culture. Cut out the excessive performance metrics; they actually reduce less time on customer-driven content. Remember the values, or get rid of them.