Below average wages, for a job that will keep you permanently stressed, and gaslight you if you complain - Anonymous employee Xero Employee Review

1.0
Jul 13, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Typically you can finish a little earlier every second Friday, to join the company social night.

Cons

A genuinely insane level of micro managing for service agents. You'll be accountable for at least five response KPIs Agents cannot scrutinize or contest their performance reviews, because leadership do not sufficiently understand their own KPIs. These will be tied to your Annual Salary Review and are one of the tools Xero uses to to delay or refuse salary increases. You will be kept on the same salary for 18 months, with no option to progress to a new role before then. Xero insists its service staff stay in the role for at least 18 months. This, combined with hiring younger/naive students (As it's easier to consistently underpay them) to backfill vacancies left by senior SMEs begin to explain both the decline in standard of Xero Customer service, but also the severe drop in employee satisfaction for the service team. This is not an entry path into a promising career at a fast growing fin tech company. If you're considering putting up with the above to get a foot in the door - don't.

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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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