Stand Up Employer - Developer Xero Employee Review

5.0
Jan 26, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company is filled with a very diverse and talented team. Culture and values are kept at the forefront and are drilled in early and often and the senior management really does make an effort to adhere to them. Effort is made to make life easier for the employees within reason, work from home or remote when needed. Flexible hours. Great facilities. Exciting young company still getting a lot built and shipped. Fun to be a part of a product people like.

Cons

Growing pains with all of the new people and systems. Some inefficiencies are still being sussed out. Adjusting to new senior management. Seems to be a lot of change in that space.

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Xero Response
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Thank you for your feedback and advice. The People Experience team is currently trialing a cool new tool that will help us gather opinions, feedback and concerns in real time so we are able to respond and improve things at the same speed as we are scaling.

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