Avoid unless you truly need remote.
Avoid unless you truly need remote.
On paper, compensation is good.
Nice offices.
Some interesting technical challenges.
Some really smart coworkers.
Clueless management and "leadership". Squeezing employees and then PIPing them if they are not continually going above and beyond. Fear-based culture.
Performance review every six months that is extremely intensive. Engineers are graded on PR count, Confluence pages created, interviews given, etc. This leads to overwork and burnout, while software teams do not focus on solving actual problems due to poor management and "leaders" focusing on the wrong things.
I am not opposed to performance management, but Atlassian has some severe flaws in their current approach that I believe will negatively impact the company's performance in the long term.
Vet your P60 SDMs better. I have never experienced blatant disrespect and incompetence to this level in my 10 years of experience in the tech industry.
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