Atlassian

The base salary is reasonable for the industry, but equity grants make a huge difference to the overall compensation package.

Remote work is a great benefit, although not being able to work face-to-face does hinder progress at times.

Very clever team.

The company no longer upholds its values. At this point, they are simply meaningless platitudes trotted out during values interviews.

Bi-annual performance reviews are a big distraction for management and ICs, both. As an IC, you need to justify your job twice a year in 300 words or less per performance pillar, with no other means to express your contributions. You are then left waiting 6-8 weeks each time to discover your rating and whether you even still have a job. This is not to mention the 4-8 weeks management spends each time writing assessments for their direct reports and in calibration meetings. The lost productivity is huge.

The org I work in lacks long-term vision. We are constantly chasing short-term goals and working to add new features to our products, without shoring up the foundations to make what we have already delivered to customers bulletproof. This only serves to increase the technical debt in our products and the burden of their continued support.

Despite selling the company's soul in pursuit of becoming a world-class engineering company, the stock price remains largely flat, yet wildly erratic on a week-to-week basis. That which once made Atlassian a standout company is gone, and all that is left is the hollow echo of "dev-joy" being chanted by leadership as though that will make up for everything that has been lost.

At this point, I have none. I think Atlassian has irrevocably lost what once made it special. Without some real innovation, the company's market share will be slowly eroded away by newer and more innovative competitors.