Atlassian

Culture was great (not sure that it still is).

Excellent parental leave policy (20-26 weeks).

You get to work on products used by some of the largest companies in the world.

Executive leadership has lost its way. Unnecessary layoffs were given the company's excellent financial status. They are switching to stack ranking for performance reviews. They are using metrics like how fast pull requests are closed, or how many pull requests you closed, leading to all the wrong kinds of incentives at work. Leadership is literally saying "shut up and trust us" to well-intentioned dissenters.

Mike, Scott, you've brought on some bad apples in your executive hires, e.g., people from SV big tech who don't fit the culture. You need to course correct, or all your best people are going to leave.

It may take months or years, but they'll all leave, and you'll be worse off for it. You can fill those seats with new graduates who don't know any better, but they'll reach the same conclusions eventually.

You built a great company and you're slowly destroying it. I've never seen anyone burn through as much goodwill as you did starting in 2023.

I hope things improve. I'd still be there if not for those bad changes. You can't buy the kind of loyalty you had in some of your longest-tenured employees.