Pros
Amazing Graduate Program and generally a great place to grow as a junior engineer used to have best and most unique work perk ever - the paddle boards (taken away after layoffs rip ðŸ˜ðŸ«¶) at the IC level, wonderful people who rly cared about each other and the work we were doing, Xero tends to hire well. Slack space popped offfff - miss Xero slack and the random chat we’d all have! Great work life balance and great benefits excluding pay/shares.
Cons
Can be pretty silo’d - connections I made during the grad program was the only way I knew about half the stuff going on in other areas. Wider company comms were boring as and not super open - make all hands more engaging to the avg employee and share more! Accounting is a tough domain so lots of employees didn’t rly know the product and thus weren’t engaged in the vision - do a better job of onboarding people!!!! Shocking pay - I 1.5x’d my salary by leaving 😛 Employee share program is a joke, you only get 10% of your (terrible) salary at IC level. Can be hard to move around - I got lucky with some team shuffles working in my favour but know people who struggled to move their careers in the direction they needed. Layoffs were ROUGH - terrible showing from C-suite and Board to put the company/employees in that position. You’re meant to be the people with the business acumen, how did you let that happen?!?!!