Smoke and Mirrors - be careful - Group Product Manager Xero Employee Review

2.0
May 11, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Free coffee and nice offices - Young vibrant teams - Weekly socials are fun

Cons

- Extremely political, culture is very much weighed towards individual profile over team. Be prepared to fight to get your name associated with a feature. - Average or below average renumeration - though share plan is decent - Little to no budgets for team building or professional development. Fund your own morning tea's & most PD is woeful and delivered internally - Business model relies on a 1-3 year churn on employees, and leans towards younger grads and juniors. This creates issues in terms of IP loss and value places on longer term employees (low)

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Pros

Great culture and solid benefits

Cons

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Jun 30, 2026
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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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