Atlassian

• Good free lunches at the Sydney office.
• Good compensation.
• Everyone pretends that everything is fine, and everyone loves each other.

This is hell! The company decided that it needed to break into the AI race, and everyone was talking about it. Moreover, no one understands why this is needed or what the benefit of it is. All other matters were abandoned; all efforts were thrown into AI completely thoughtlessly. Teams endlessly release experiments that are never completed and end up in production. Developers spend a lot of time communicating with other teams and people, rather than developing, just to coordinate work on AI. The pressure is just enormous. Senior managers put pressure on managers, who in turn put pressure on teams and developers.

There is no code culture in the company. The code is terrible; no one monitors it, and there is no time to fix it because managers need to show OKRs, and for this, they need new features. As soon as a feature is made, they don’t support it and rush to make a new one in order to show it in new reports.

In the last year, APEX was introduced. This is a system that evaluates developers. Everyone hates her. People spend a week filling out reports about what they did last quarter.

Focus on perfecting what you already have, rather than chasing new features (AI in particular).

People are leaving Confluence for Notion not because they like the AI, but because the basic functionality in Confluence doesn't work as well as Notion.