Love the people, sometimes chaotic - Operations Coordinator Xero Employee Review

4.0
Nov 6, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Worked with excellent, intelligent people all the time! The New Zealand influence lends itself to a casual, kind workplace that I love. I have found that the expectations for maintaining work-life balance to be very reasonable.

Cons

Company is growing fast, but still a 'toddler'. Management and leadership move slowly and can be difficult to collaborate with effectively. A downside to the NZ culture (coming from an American), is the need for unanimous agreement. There is a major tendency to add stakeholders unnecessarily. It adds a ton of noise and drag to projects.

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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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