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Dev? European? Recruitment bus hits major cities, in true Atlassian style

  • By jluijke, VP of Talent
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  • On March 8, 2012
Wow, what an incredible response. I'm writing this note after watching the applications from software developers soar past 350,… only one week after launching the 15-in-15 roadshow, our somewhat crazy idea to send a "Recruitment Bus" around Europe to find the best. Only a couple of months ago, I sat down with our awesome recruitment manager, Deepa to discuss how we could put a traditional recruitment roadshow in a new jacket. We got hold of a bus and scheduled a tour through EU cities

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8 automations that improved our HR team’s productivity

  • By jluijke, VP of Talent
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  • On November 29, 2011
I hate manual repetitive tasks that don’t add value to the work of our team. Unfortunately, in HR, there are many. In the past, we'd run around manually adding information on various HR systems, notify IT, update managers on recruitment stats, new hires, and the list goes on and on. That's why we've been working on ways to automate these processes. Unfortunately, HR system providers don’t make it easy for us. The tools are often archaic and allow little to no integration options. However,

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Atlassian’s Big Experiment with Performance Reviews

  • By jluijke, VP of Talent
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  • On August 26, 2010
I'm happy to announce that we are undertaking a thorough, public trial of an alternative to the traditional performance review. Do you ever wonder if and how you could call a halt to your performance review process? Do you think traditional processes are marred by the distribution curve (and forced rankings), huge time investments and low impact on performance improvements? Maybe you agree that your processes have their faults, but you think that it's not sensible to abolish performance appraisals

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Join Atlassian! News about our recruitment efforts

  • By jluijke, VP of Talent
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  • On February 15, 2010
Atlassian has something special going on... It starts with, of all things, their core values and shows up in the quality of the products they create and their almost fanatical user base. They have the most holistic approach to software I think I have ever seen --Marlena Compton, Atlassian's newest QA Engineer Marlena is just one of the 24 new hires that we've made at Atlassian in the last 6 months. We were all thrilled to read her blog about how she is tossing out the map and coming to work with

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