Inept leadership extremely confident in themselves - Senior Engineer Xero Employee Review

1.0
Mar 16, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Good work life balance - Currently employed in a tough market

Cons

- Pay is subpar - Performance reviews are some of the worst I've ever experienced - Senior leadership doesn't know what it takes to run a performant engineering capability - Senior leadership are so overconfident in their decisions that they get visibly angry when questioned about their laughably poor decisions - Little to no autonomy as an engineer - Nearly impossible to work at a decent level of productivity due to the huge bureaucratic overhead (which Senior leadership continue to lie about)

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Cons

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