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Very inefficient business processes

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Atlassian for 4 years
June 14, 2019
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Can help with visa and relocation and provides some flexibility in personal time usage.

Cons

The company has overwhelmingly inefficient business processes. It has tons of legacy, unmaintainable, and untestable code without any real owner. This code is still used and is being chaotically changed, even populated with new features. There is no confidence in tests and no test coverage reports for legacy code. All of this turns development into never-ending pain. You might think that 'legacy' is something temporary here, but no – I can see that the amount of such code is only increasing.

Internal documentation is very inconsistent and often outdated.

Loyalty to management and avoidance of any disagreements are keys for career success. If you tend to understand words literally and are looking for managers you can trust, this company is a very poor choice.

The company provides very limited opportunities for self-development, especially if it is not tightly related to the roadmap of your team or does not promise a quick turnaround. The '20% time' policy has very limited application here; usually, it is required that people tackle technical debt in that time.

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