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It is not Open Company, No BS... It is Open Company and hence too much BS

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Atlassian for 1 year
February 1, 2015
Sydney, Australia
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • Free food, drinks, and social events.
  • Free T-shirts.
Cons

To be successful at Atlassian, you need to:

  1. Talk
  2. Keep talking
  3. And not stop talking
  • The technology used is old, and most folks have no idea how the product works. They are afraid to rewrite them.
  • You need to talk a lot to be recognized and successful. The majority of the blogs are written for silly reasons and have no value, causing the more important ones to be ignored.
  • The work environment has a lot of distractions, like blogs and useless chats.
  • Managers are like their products: worst performance, have no idea why they want something done. They have no clue on how to manage people.
  • The only reason their products (major ones) are a success is because there is no similar competing product in the industry.
Advice to Management

Change "Open Company, No BS" to "No BS, Open Company".

Change "Build with heart and balance" to "Build with heart, backbone, brain and balance".

Change "Don't screw the customer" to "Don't screw yourself and the customer".

Change "Play, as a Team" to "Don't Play, Work as a Team".

Change "Be the Change You Seek" to "Change the way you seek (do things)".

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