Heading towards massive bureaucracy - Engineer Xero Employee Review

3.0
Oct 13, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- salary is above market rate - smart people to work with - no hidden agendas - flexible agile / lean deliverables. - Nice perks - Initially felt like a startup culture with flat structure but now its turning into a traditional evil corp.

Cons

- Mediocre middle management who dont know anything technical and engineering, and even strategy - so what is their solution? Hire more people and let them decide what it will look like - Selective career growth - sometimes, its all up to luck - Too much customisation on internal tooling that there are heaps of people maintaining them (Building your own tools actually expensive - it costs extra overheads to maintain them)

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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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