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While I'm sure there are some legitimate grievances here, nothing about this makes the author look credible in any way. Personally, none of the claims made here

While I'm sure there are some legitimate grievances here, nothing about this makes the author look credible in any way. Personally, none of the claims made here seem to stand up to scrutiny. He claims that Atlassian has illegal hiring practices because of one instance where they passed on the first candidate that just cleared the technical bar? Or that unlimited PTO is a scam because his manager had to approve time off requests (completely standard practice - unlimited PTO or not)? Sorry, my pitchfork is staying put.

h4l0 5y ago
Disclaimer; I work at Atlassian as a Software Engineer. First of all, he has this weird take at the very beginning > Interesting fact 1: Atlassian is the only company that has words "sh*" and "f*" in their core values. Those values are "Don't f* the customer" and "Open company no bulls**" (oh the irony). This 'take' immediately threw me off. Why would you even mention something this trivial? I'll give it a pass as his emotions were probably elevated. > After being in the company for more than a year I had found that folks with children are less likely to get a promotion. I had no evidence, it was a feeling. Most of the folks I've seen got promoted had children. Having no evidence to support your claim in an article like this (with a banger title) is a red flag to me. PTO is unfortunately something that I'm unfamiliar with. The country that I live in prohibits unlimited PTO by law, so I've never had that experience. Although, using the PTO that I acquire is still subject to approval of my manager. That part of the story is what the author should have really focused on. Going after the whole company in such a vicious manner is not a good look in my opinion. I agree with most of the top comments here. Stay low, get a lawyer, deal with this silently. Hope his wife has a fast and easy recovery. Tough times, tough challenges for the author personally. No matter how hard I try, I certainly wouldn't be able to fully empathize with him.
_hilro 5y ago
> Or that unlimited PTO is a scam because his manager had to approve time off requests (completely standard practice - unlimited PTO or not If a company advertises unlimited PTO but then the company(or it's representatives) block my ability to take PTO, then yes it is a scam. Why doesn't Atlassian keep track of requests/denial rates and then intervene since they're so benevolent and worried about the potential future employees well-being?
- ghaff 5y ago
  But it would equally be a scam is I explicitly earned a given number of vacation days and couldn't take those. My main objection to "unlimited PTO" is that it really puts the onus on the company to set some expectations and stick with them, e.g. "While it will differ by workload/deadlines/etc., a normal expectation is that employees take 3 to 5 weeks in a typical year." (or whatever.)

h4l0 5y ago

Disclaimer; I work at Atlassian as a Software Engineer. First of all, he has this weird take at the very beginning > Interesting fact 1: Atlassian is the only company that has words "sh*" and "f*" in their core values. Those values are "Don't f* the customer" and "Open company no bulls**" (oh the irony). This 'take' immediately threw me off. Why would you even mention something this trivial? I'll give it a pass as his emotions were probably elevated. > After being in the company for more than a year I had found that folks with children are less likely to get a promotion. I had no evidence, it was a feeling. Most of the folks I've seen got promoted had children. Having no evidence to support your claim in an article like this (with a banger title) is a red flag to me. PTO is unfortunately something that I'm unfamiliar with. The country that I live in prohibits unlimited PTO by law, so I've never had that experience. Although, using the PTO that I acquire is still subject to approval of my manager. That part of the story is what the author should have really focused on. Going after the whole company in such a vicious manner is not a good look in my opinion. I agree with most of the top comments here. Stay low, get a lawyer, deal with this silently. Hope his wife has a fast and easy recovery. Tough times, tough challenges for the author personally. No matter how hard I try, I certainly wouldn't be able to fully empathize with him.

_hilro 5y ago

> Or that unlimited PTO is a scam because his manager had to approve time off requests (completely standard practice - unlimited PTO or not If a company advertises unlimited PTO but then the company(or it's representatives) block my ability to take PTO, then yes it is a scam. Why doesn't Atlassian keep track of requests/denial rates and then intervene since they're so benevolent and worried about the potential future employees well-being?

ghaff 5y ago
But it would equally be a scam is I explicitly earned a given number of vacation days and couldn't take those. My main objection to "unlimited PTO" is that it really puts the onus on the company to set some expectations and stick with them, e.g. "While it will differ by workload/deadlines/etc., a normal expectation is that employees take 3 to 5 weeks in a typical year." (or whatever.)