Love the people, diversity and freedom to do great work. - Graduate Platform Engineer Xero Employee Review

4.0
Aug 12, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great coffee, great people, very diverse staff (compared to others, still room for improvement but doing well) autonomy and freedom (at least my area) Lots of experimenting with new tech and moving fast to take advantage of new things. Pretty much everyone believes in the product(s) and the goals and genuinely wants to do the best job and get the best results.

Cons

HR burocracy starting to creep in making it hard to keep good people who could be making way more elsewhere. This also affects the ability to engage with community and go to conferences when you have to fight for it every time. In some parts of the business we are starting to have too many layers of management went from two layers between me and the CEO to 4 - makes a noticeable difference!

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Cons

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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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