Flexible and cruisy for the most part, but some clear issues are becoming a pattern - Data Scientist Xero Employee Review

3.0
Mar 5, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Outstanding flexibility, with the ability to work from anywhere. Strong initiatives that ensure engagement and promote a healthy work-life balance.

Cons

Several upper management members appear to have advanced primarily due to tenure rather than meeting the key criteria for their roles. The company is excessively siloed, making it difficult to determine whether work is being duplicated. People leaders and line managers often focus more on their individual success than on mentoring and providing constructive feedback, leaving junior employees without adequate career development opportunities. The "performance culture" that they are looking to inspire seems to be having an adverse impact in terms of ensuring long term prosperity of the company, through disenchanting those that are looking to help the company grow without the platforms to perform and incentivising managers and those higher in the food chain to only thing of themselves and not their direct reports.

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5.0
Apr 24, 2026
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Pros

Great culture and solid benefits

Cons

Could be a bit chaotic at times

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
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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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