Losing its way slowly - Senior Engineer Xero Employee Review

4.0
Oct 30, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Probably the bet at Scale environment to work at in Wellington. Good teams of people who want to deliver.

Cons

Schizophrenic Exec. interested/only able in building hierarchical layers between 'do-ers' and exec. You can't talk about Agile with so many complex layers of management to navigate. Internal communications are dreadful. There is not a culture of collaboration; while you don't want to have to ask others to get things done, you do want to tell and engage them as stakeholders so they are informed, and their impacts assessed. Rod waving his hands around at every idea that he comes up with is not product management.

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Cons

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