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Mostly good, depends a lot on which team you join

Software Engineer (P40)
Current Employee
Has worked at Atlassian for 1 year
February 12, 2025
Christchurch, Canterbury
4.0
RecommendsPositive Outlook
Pros
  • Base salary is decent for NZ.
  • Mostly informal, Aussie-style company culture.
  • Lots of nice people.
  • Opportunity to learn about many different domains and systems.
  • Sensible policies around autonomy and flexibility.
  • Amazing paid parental leave.
Cons
  • Stacked ranking
  • Company expects upward growth from all non-senior engineers, but puts the onus totally on you to prove your 'impact' across a wide range of categories at the next level before you have a chance to get promoted. At twice-a-year calibration, the higher ups then look for reasons not to promote you.
  • A fair bit of bureaucratic BS at times, but to be expected at a company this size.
  • No SREs. If your team owns anything vaguely critical, you will have to go on-call and be constantly paged and woken up at night. This is unsustainable health-wise, and the extra pay for on-call is meager.
  • Unlimited time off in the US; limited everywhere else.
Advice to Management

Consider the ops load being placed on engineers, and how unfair the on-call burden is for some teams.

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