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Working at a “thinking” company

I recently joined Atlassian after spending 15 years in large corporates. I was drawn to Atlassian due to its culture and its young, smart people. Indeed, I was one of the younger people in my previous company, whereas I'm now one of the older ones at Atlassian! I noticed from Day 1 how Atlassian was a different company. Not 'different' as intentionally wanting to 'be different' but rather having a willingness to 'think differently' about how things are done. Here's some examples... The OS of your

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How to get a job at Atlassian

As a new 'face' on the Atlassian News Blog, I should probably introduce myself. I recently started working at Atlassian as a Business Analyst, charged with ensuring that our internal systems continue to provide legendary service to our customers. With all the interest that's out there about Atlassian and its famous culture, I thought I'd share a few hints about how I got the job... In fact, I'd say that there were two things that significantly helped me get the job: (1) Right Time, Right Place BarCamp

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Real Time Executive seeks a WikiGardener in Australia!

Real Time Executive, an Australian IT recruitment firm, is looking for a Senior Investigative Researcher & Wiki Gardener to lead the research team that gathers, organises and searches data from thousands of sources about skilled IT workers. The company describes its process thus: "A typical assignment from one of our clients would be to find the top 20 Java Engineers in Australia. Posting an ad on Seek will not attract candidates at this level so we must use our highly skilled research team to

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