Inside Atlassian's Remote Engineering Culture | Rajeev Rajan, CTO @Atlassian Interview

A Studio Z interview with Atlassian’s CTO Rajeev Rajan on building rockstar remote engineering teams and more! Discover how Rajeev nurtures an exceptional engineering culture at Atlassian while tackling the challenges of remote work. Learn about the functions of company values, how to unleash your team's potential, and why developer joy directly leads to productivity.
Tune in for insightful discussions on building human connections, understanding team dynamics, and practical advice for "getting things done" in a distributed workforce. Plus, hear Rajeev's take on the concepts of conduction, convection, and radiation in teamwork, and find out who he thinks should be our next guest!
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:50 Engineering culture at Atlassian
05:50 Challenges of working remotely
09:50 Building human connection
12:10 Functions of company values
14:40 Unleashing team potential
17:50 Seek to understand first
19:20 Get things done
23:05 Conduction, convection, radiation
29:45 Developer joy leads to productivity
35:40 Who should be our next guest?

[@pragmaticdata]

Great content!

[@JohnVu-tf3nn]

Wow, because Atlassian built JIRA for Engineers and it kind of self-serving tools for Atlassian (who is very expertised of using JIRA) so that it reason why my non-tech guys struggled using JIRA. Too complicated, slow, poor UI and UX, so we decided to switch to the new tools after 5 years used JIRA.

[@pragmaticdata]

a couple unsolicited suggestions: 1. captions would help a lot in these listicle videos. sometimes, the audience would watch without sound. Descript is a great tool 2. the wide camera position can be lower. eye-level angel would make the audience feel more engaged 3. 30p framerate is better than 60p since there are not many motions, and it's faster to load. yesterday when office internet is bad, I was struggling to load 4k 60p.

[@nands4410]

Who watches podcast without sound

[@Zuplo]

Thanks for the feedback! This is helpful 👍🏽

[@aprincipledengineer]

@@nands4410 at least two of us. I can read much faster than most people can talk. I generally just pause the video and read the KZbin transcript. I'm here for the information, not the personalities.

[@Likit257]

Its NOT RJEEV - IT IS RAA-JEE-V!

[@compass-uk]

ex meta toxicity spreading

[@compass-uk]

20:00 short term focus + micro manage

[@rrhev]

Hopefully he will leave and the old culture will return. But in general, it's not good to have Indians in C level suite.