Pros
I commenced with Xero in the earlier days (2014) as it was scaling where I had the privilege and honour to work with some amazing talent. There were loads of opportunities to grow and in the earlier days, Xero really invested in their people particularly if you were a leader. Well that was my experience anyway. I am grateful to have had this opportunity and really did experience some tremendous growth. It wasn't always easy though. I was impacted by the lay offs and have made a couple of attempts to apply but it seems like the new crop of talent experience people don't even bother looking at CVs or acknowledging previous longer term employees.
Cons
Around 2019-ish, a lot of unnecessary hires were made and that is when things started to get challenging. Sadly, a lot of the great people I got the opportunity to work with were impacted by lay offs. US based CEO took the hammer and pretty much killed the culture. I often touch base with former colleagues who are still at Xero and the morale is pretty low.