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Snacks, Laziness, Career Escape

Software Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at Atlassian for 2 years
January 17, 2019
Sydney, New South Wales
2.0
RecommendsNegative Outlook
Pros
  • Good enough to get by while looking for a real job.
  • Free snacks and beverages.
  • You can be lazy; everybody already is. Look at the bosses. Make him or her happy and you're good. Just tell them they are awesome; they'd really appreciate it. I feel most of them have proper education.
  • Reading blog posts, internal/external, usually yields good laughs.
Cons

In general, if you value your career, pay attention to yourself and have a plan to develop the skills you need for a real job, avoiding getting too attached to this inept system.

  • There's no reason to put effort into the company; performance reviews are kind of insulting, especially if you actually did any work.
  • Lazy and incompetent leadership; they are extremely greedy and quite naive, but it's good that it's not rocket science to recognize that. Anyway, all they need is to build their religion.
  • Uneducated folks are in high positions, along with their factions.
  • Being involuntarily drawn into political conflicts, regardless of having no interest or showing obvious disdain toward them.
  • Your work and yourself might be wrongly represented for weird purposes. A lot of people have time to just fabricate stories.
  • Support team behavior seems to indicate that the customer can go away. That is why they do not need to do their jobs. 70% of the time I was in contact with support, I thought, 'What the...?' and I have no idea why they waste money and what they are doing in the middle except confusing both the customer and the product team.
Advice to Management

Like POTUS, you guys are great contributors to the laughing stock of the industry. Keep it up.

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