I work for Atlassian, and managers often give employees bad performance reviews and PIP them for arbitrary/fake/political reasons. They stack rank employees and pressure them to overextend. Managers work against employees instead of supporting them. Employees are very stressed and lacking job security. How does working at Microsoft compare to this?
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Thought atlassian had great culture?
It’s been nearly a decade since I was there but that isn’t the culture I remember. Not that people weren’t assholes from time to time, but performance management was barely a thing. And Atlassian had HipChat at the time, if anyone should have been performance managed, it’s their leadership. Gotta be able to attract talent to be able to churn through it.
Atlassian markets itself as having great culture, but everything they say is opposite of the actual employee experience
Bro don't know who invented stack ranking
It’s alive and well at MSFT
It’s called lite here
You are in which location?
Australia. Microsoft is hiring for Azure roles in Australia.
All places are like this now, no more coasting, fuck your wlb you’re making way more than the avg person.
The problem is what they're doing is not so much preventing coasting, but incentivizing political maneuvering and eroding trust in teams. A lot of the PIPs are not based on performance, but politics and cost cutting headcount reductions. It's not going to have he effect you think it will and is going to have very negative second order consequences on the company and people.
Microsoft did have a stack ranking culture and in recent years have developed a PIP culture (PIP was rare before this round of bad economy). And historically very political. On the other hand, I do know a few ex-MSFTs that recently moved to Atlassian. They are not the the political type, but are shocked at the slow pace and quality of work. I won't be surprised if they PIP some people base on their description.
Spot on, Atlassian has PIP culture too
Microsoft invented it
GE invented it. But didn't stop doing this shit like 5 years ago?
Microsoft started it up again