Platform Engineering - Anonymous employee Xero Employee Review

4.0
Apr 10, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It's definitely a great place to work and I would recommend to anyone. A lot of opportunities if you are proactive and willing to learn. Probably a one of a kind for certain technologies and a company that will definitely multiply in its size. The culture is great.

Cons

The cons are of any company of this kind really. Especially if you are new to the Agile\Scrum\etc startup. So if you are old school IT, you will struggle to get up to speed but once you do, things start to happen really quick so always keep positive.

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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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