Good benefits but slow career progression - Senior Software Engineer Xero Employee Review

4.0
Jan 25, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Plenty of time to learn and grow Take care of both business need and employee needs good benefits like health insurance, life insurance, EAP, learning budget, 5 day Xtra leaves per year

Cons

Hard to advance to leadership role (team lead/lead engineer) from a senior engineer Lots of time spent on regulatory requirements

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Pros

Great culture and solid benefits

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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