A leading provider of collaboration and productivity software, Atlassian Corporation has announced plans to hire 1,000 employees globally as part of a major recruitment drive in 2021. Atlassian is the maker of popular workplace tools including Jira, Confluence, BitBucket and Trello.

The company has indicated plans to hire a number of front-end and back-end engineers, along with 300 R&D engineers in India in the upcoming year.

Atlassian presently has an employee base of 700, and is looking to scale its operations at its R&D and customer center in Bengaluru, which happens to be Atlassian’s fastest growing R&D site ever since its launch in 2018.

Recognized for its thoughtful endeavors to foster a culture of openness and transparency, Atlassian is a strong advocate on how the future of work will reshape workplaces, practices, and policies. Addressing the evolving employee needs in today’s context, the company recently unveiled a host of benefits, employee-first policies, and resources to support the personal and professional growth of its employees globally. Atlassian is also providing all employees with an allowance of $US500 to enable an effective WFH environment, in addition to its existing perks and benefits. Additionally, providing employees with an opportunity to give back to the community, the company offers five days paid foundation leave every year, to volunteer at a charity of their preference.  

The company has made significant investments in updating its hiring practices. A company statement said, “With respect to hiring, the Candidate Assessment Framework of Atlassian has enabled global consistency to the assessment and selection process for their candidates, interviewers and hiring managers' experience in the crafts they apply it to. It allows the interviewers to focus on potential of the employees and objectively evaluate the whole individual, aligning on values, experience, skills, and capabilities.”

“We have invested significantly in talent acquisition in India but the ongoing pandemic which has fuelled a sharp rise in team collaboration and productivity software, has added the need to bring in even more talent. Globally, we’ve welcomed just short of 500 new Atlassians in the last quarter, mostly in R&D roles. As we continue to invest in and drive durable long-term growth, we also intend to maintain our ambitious hiring goals for the remainder of 2021,” said Dinesh Ajmera, Site Lead and Head of Engineering, Bengaluru, Atlassian. “Atlassian offers the opportunity for engineers, whether they are just starting out their career or are seasoned pros, to work in a company with a startup culture but one that also has the safety and security of a multinational behind them. We continue to be recognized as a “Best Place to Work” by Great Place to Work Institute in nearly every market where we have an employee presence.” 

In the last quarter, Atlassian’s total customers rose by a record 11,617 net-new customers of all sizes, to 194,334, up by 17.9% from a year ago.

By serving IT teams, the company more than doubles their addressable opportunity in the technical teams’ market from 45 million to 100 million users.  

“Despite the pandemic, our journey as a cloud-first company is off to a good start in fiscal 2021. We have a strong presence of ITSM/ITOps teams in Bangalore who are having a large impact globally. We launched Jira Service Management for IT teams, made significant progress on enterprise capabilities in the cloud, and announced a three-year migration path to the cloud for on-premise customers. These are important milestones against two long-standing goals: bringing a world-class cloud experience to customers of all sizes and delivering continuous innovation that streamlines their most important workflows,” added Ajmera.

Given Atlassian’s ambitious plans, fueled by a great start to the fiscal year, it fares well for the organization to have transparent employee-friendly practices in place. As the firm plans to scale operations and employee base, such practices will serve as a pull factor to attract, hire, engage and retain top talent.