Atlassian

Pay is competitive in Australia.

Offices are nice if you live near one.

Culture and values are down the drain. Don't believe what they tell you on the careers website.

A cut-throat engineering culture, brought on by the CTO, is expected. There's politics and opaque expectations from management, which can be rated as good one day and suddenly bad when it comes to performance reviews. (Stated as someone who has never received bad performance ratings but observes it from their team and wider co-workers).

The President's vision is not bad, but the layer of management that is deciding how we get there is questionable. They make decisions despite not being subject matter experts across domains, leading to reinventing the wheel multiple times across the company.

Special shoutout to the CTO, whose decisions have made a mockery of the company values and culture and instilled a culture of fear and politics instead.