Be careful about which team - Anonymous employee Xero Employee Review

2.0
Apr 17, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you’re in the right team, collaboration and mutual respect is there and makes it a great, positive and productive working environment.

Cons

If you’re *NOT* in the right team, collaboration and mutual respect is NOT there and makes it a NOT very great, negative and un-productive working environment. No opportunities for growing into more senior roles - the trend seems to be to hire from outside rather than train people from within.

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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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