Big challenges, huge opportunity, a super exciting workplace - Software Developer Xero Employee Review

4.0
Mar 21, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Smart devs and regular training opportunities means you are always learning. You can take a lot of ownership of your work and drive Xero in a direction that makes sense to you. If you like a challenge, this is the place for you! Lots of opportunity to work on green-fields projects and legacy systems alike.

Cons

Regions are isolated, little collaboration across biz domains and no visibility for the candidate in the hiring process (can take a long time!)

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5.0
Apr 24, 2026
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Pros

Great culture and solid benefits

Cons

Could be a bit chaotic at times

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Xero has a great product and a lot of very passionate employees who work very hard for their customers.

Cons

The executive leadership at Xero is creating a toxic, backstabbing culture that promotes yes-men at the expense of honest dialogue. It's impossible to make decisions at the company, and multiple rounds of layoffs are leaving all employees shell shocked and fearful. Marketing teams are under-resourced while more demands are constantly being placed on teams to do more. When constraints are communicated, employees are blamed for them, rather that listened to. Multiple colleagues have said the same thing. Additionally, management has instituted a 'rank and yank' policy where everyone is graded on a forced curve, where the bottom quarter are immediately put on a PIP.

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