Atlassian

Remote working, flexible, good pay.

"We don't have a policy for that."

"We care about people – also, here's your PIP."

The obsession with ranking your peers, ranking yourself, and PIPing the lower percentile ensures that staff optimize for the assessments.

Survival takes countless hours curating weekly personal achievement logs that you can fluff out during performance review time.

This naturally selects for those who are great at politics while pushing out talented individuals with an outsized genuine impact.

Competition is great, and I support the notion of having the right people in the job, especially when times are tough. However, Atlassian has adopted competitive punitive measures as their incentive, which has resulted in a total collapse of the culture.

In my team, the team members don't talk to each other and actively dislike each other. The level of stress is palpable, and the objectives handed down to us are not practical within the time frames demanded.

You say you care about people, and you did once. I don't see that today.