Pros
Great culture and nice office environment.. Fellow developers are fantastic people and super-talented too.. Over here, they just want Xero to be the last place you work in.. period.
Cons
On the technical end, Xero seems to be accumulating fair bit of legacy code and tech debt as we continue to grow larger and with an expansion of product offerings. We do not seem to be adopting or evaluating the latest tech stack fast enough and quite concerning is that we might not have a concrete plan of action on a company-wide tech stack adoption and migration plan. Why is this important? ultimately we are a beautiful business software company, we should have full #ownership of the software we use. Sometimes management seems to be little bit lost in direction which is understandable considering the pace of our growth (in all areas such as new countries, new customers and new hiring).. I guess we have to keep on putting our focus and attention on our customers and delivering value to them. It's not easy and it can be a learning cycle but our managers are definitely trying their best.