Once a great place to work, now questionable - Anonymous employee Xero Employee Review

2.0
Jul 17, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1. Work can be flexible depending on teams 2. Some really talented individuals 3. Remote opportunities

Cons

1. Leadership is often disconnected from the actual groundwork 2. Disorganised approach to redundancies and company changes, moving away from people to profits. Employees are but means to a goal, and can be thrown away once the work is done. 3. The company culture once a selling point is now slowly dying with the new changes. 4. Career growth and opportunities are now slower than ever

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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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