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Am I the only one who feels the entire work relationship and promotion process at Atlassian is a Kafkaesque nightmare? You have to earn X number of various stat
by short_sells_poo 5y ago
Am I the only one who feels the entire work relationship and promotion process at Atlassian is a Kafkaesque nightmare? You have to earn X number of various statistics so that you can then be considered for promotion and they even go to the trouble if creating all these employment tiers.
Are all big tech companies like this? It sounds like a miserable experience. "Blimey, I'm 10 code points short to be promoted from a level 3 widget engineer to a class F level 1 junior vice president manager. Maybe I can convert 50 of my code points that I've earned into management points. Also, the employee rulebook also says that I can roll a D20 and add any untaken holidays and if it's above 30 I'll get into the shortlist for next year."
Who comes up with all this ridiculous gamified hierarchy? Maybe I'm just naive as I never worked in these BigCos...
- denverkarma 5y agoThe promo process there is a mess for sure. They were trying to fix the issue of having different offices all around the world, and that people's standards in different markets were - well - different. But the effort to create globally a standardized promotion process meant it became very hard to get promoted, and as a manager it sucked when you had people on your team who absolutely deserved it but got stuck in the process and had to wait 1-2 years more than they should have, or leave in order to get a vertical move.